spicy macaroni and cheese
creamy and spicy mac n cheese - just enough of a tingle to take it to the next level.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp butter
- 350 g macaroni or your favourite short pasta
- 1 garlic clove finely chopped or use 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
- 3 tbsp plain flour
- 500 ml milk
- 300 g Illchester Nightmare on Market Street or Illchester Mexicana if not available.
- Nachos crushed - enough to cover the oven dish
- Jalapeño - to your taste
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.
- Boil the pasta in a large saucepan until it is al dente.
- Melt butter in a saucepan.
- Add the garlic and cook for 1 min.
- Stir in the plain flour and cook for a minute more, then gradually whisk in the milk.
- Simmer the sauce, continually stirring, until it thickens.
- Take the saucepan off the heat and stir in 250g of the cheese.
- Stir in the creamy cheese sauce into the pasta
- Pour the pasta mix into a large ovenproof or casserole dish
- Scatter over the crushed nachos, jalapeños and the rest of the grated cheese.
- Bake until the cheese has melted.