Recipe: Perfect Mac and cheese with bacon

Mac and cheese with bacon. While that bakes, heat a saute pan. Add the bacon, render the fat and cook until crispy. Add to sauce with bacon; mix lightly.

Mac and cheese may seem straightforward, but in an all-star mac, each component is carefully considered and intentionally chosen to build a creamy, melty But before you get really creative, it's important to master the basics. This Creamy Baked Macaroni and Cheese with Bacon is an excellent. This is the perfect bacon mac and cheese for those of you who like to enjoy a big bowl for dinner and absolutely nothing else. You can cook Mac and cheese with bacon using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mac and cheese with bacon

1. Prepare 400 g of dried macaroni pasta.
2. Prepare 1 of onion chopped.
3. You need 300 g of grated mature cheddar cheese.
4. It's 1 pint of milk.
5. Prepare Half of veg stock cube.
6. You need 1 tsp of English mustard.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of dried basil.
8. It's of Ground black pepper.
9. It's 50 g of butter.
10. It's 50 g of plain flour.
11. Prepare 3 slices of white bread.
12. It's 200 g of lardons.

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Mac and cheese with bacon step by step

1. Cook pasta as per instructions. Set aside and leave in cold water to stop it sticking together.
2. Make the bread into breadcrumbs with 50gs of the cheese.
3. Fry bacon into crispy and drain..
4. Fry onions in till soften,.
5. Add butter and flour and stir.
6. Add milk, mustard, basil, pepper, and half of stock cube and stir till thickened..
7. Stir in the remaining grated cheese and stir in bacon.
8. Drain pasta and add to the sauce and stir through..
9. Top with breadcrumb mixture.
10. Bake in a pre heated oven at 200 until topping is crispy and golden..

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