Kids loves macaroni, we can cook it in different flavors - it can be sweet, milky or cheesy.
This kid at home asked me a favor to cook macaroni as it is a requirement for their cooking class. She's afraid of the fire so she wants me to cook for her. Sometimes when we're both free, it's one of our bonding, cooking whatever we want to cook. I'm the one who's cooking, and she's helping me to prepare the ingredients and assisting me in cooking.
So last Saturday, we cooked cheesy macaroni.
INGREDIENTS:
• Macaroni
• Cheddar
• Butter
• Milk
• Bacon
• Button mushroom
• Tomato
• Onion
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Flour (to thicken the sauce)
METHODS:
FOR COOKING INGREDIENTS:
1. Boil pasta for 10mins. Drain and dish up onto the oven-proof casserole.
2. Slice the ingredients (bacon, tomato, mushroom and onion)
3. Fry onion in oil until light golden brown. Add in mushroom, bacon and tomatoes. Fry gentle and dish up.
FOR MAKING CHEESE SAUCE:
1. Melt butter in saucepan. Add in flour, stir with wooden spoon and cook gently to form a raux.
2. Add milk slowly to the raux, continue stirring to prevent lumps.
3. Cook until the sauce thickens.
4. Add in cheese and seasoning.
• Mix the sauce with the cooked ingredients except pasta.
• Spoon mixture over the pasta and sprinkle the remaining cheese on top.
You can also bake it. But this isn't baked as we are in a hurry because the kid still have online class. This was our lunch last Saturday.
• Bake for 5mins. in a hot over until the surface turns golden brown.
• Serve and garnish with parsley (we don't have parsley so we use spring onions 😅 just to put some green)
FACTS:
Macaroni is dry pasta shaped like narrow tubes. Made with durum wheat, macaroni is commonly cut in short lengths; curved macaroni may be referred to as elbow macaroni. Some home machines can make macaroni shapes, but like most pasta, macaroni is usually made commercially by large-scale extrusion. The curved shape is created by different speeds of extrusion on opposite sides of the pasta tube as it comes out of the machine.
As is the case with dishes made with other types of pasta, macaroni and cheese is a popular dish in North America, and is often made with elbow macaroni. The same dish, known simply as macaroni cheese, is also popular in Great Britain, where it originated.
A sweet macaroni pudding, known as creamed macaroni, containing milk and sugar (and rather similar to a rice pudding) was also popular with the British during the Victorian era. It is still manufactured by Ambrosia and sold in UK supermarkets.
In areas with large Chinese populations open to Western cultural influence such as Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia and Singapore, the local Chinese have adopted macaroni as an ingredient for Chinese-style Western cuisine.
Here in Hong Kong, macaroni is cooked in water and then rinsed to remove starch, and served in clear broth with ham or frankfurter sausages, peas, black mushrooms, and optionally eggs, reminiscent of noodle soup dishes. Chinese restaurants served it for breakfast and during tea time.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni)
In the Philippines, cooked macaroni usually mixed with cream, condensed milk, mayonnaise, and different varities of canned or fresh fruits. We often make macaroni salad during occasions like Christmas, New Year, Fiestas, birthdays and other special events.
What about you, how do you cook macaroni in your country?
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wow! It looks delicious haha, I'm craving for it already.