Well, this is naughty: our no regrets proper macaroni cheese. It’s macaroni cheese done right, and comes in at 24 syns a serving. This is in no way diet food: but sometimes you need a Hot Flavour Injection before you get back on the horse to Bland Town. This dish is the culinary equivalent of telling your wife you’re discussing spreadsheets at a conference when you’re actually paying someone to do all those things to you that you read in Schmutziges Erotik-Pferd back in the fifties. Filth!
We shan’t mess about with gossip and flim-flam – I don’t doubt you’re chomping at the clout to get to our proper macaroni cheese, so let’s get straight to it. No foreplay.
I know, right?
proper macaroni cheese and to hell with the syns
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Yield 8 servings
Sometimes you need something dirty. In situations like that, no amount of pretending Quark is anything other than something scraped from under a particularly pungent bellend will do. No, sometimes you need something proper to hit the spot rather than pretend, and this macaroni cheese - loaded with butter, cheese, chorizo and more cheese, will do just that.
This is 24 syns per serving. You'll need to put a towel down, just saying.
Ingredients
- 500g penne
- 300g cherry tomatoes
- 1 chorizo ring, finely chopped (31 syns)
- 2 onions, sliced
- 50g panko (9 syns)
- 6 tbsp butter (33 syns)
- 70g flour (12½ syns)
- 1 litre whole milk (30 syns)
- 1 tsp mustard powder
- 2 tbsp sriracha (2 syns)
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 125g extra-mature cheddar, grated (25 syns)
- 125g red leicester, grated (25 syns)
- 125g mozarella, grated (17½ syns)
- 50g parmesan, grated (12 syns)
Instructions
- preheat the oven to 180°c
- bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and cook the pasta according to the instructions, then drain
- place the cherry tomatoes onto a baking tray and drizzle with a little oil, and sprinkle over some salt, and bake for twenty minutes
- heat a large pan over a medium-high heat
- add a few teaspoons of oil and fry the chorizo and onion until crisp
- use a slotted spoon to scoop out the chorizo and onion, and set aside
- reduce the heat to medium and add the butter to the same pan (with the tasty chorizo oil) and stir continuously until melted
- add the flour to the pan and stir for a minute
- whisk in the milk and bring to the boil, whisking constantly
- add the mustard, sriracha and Worcestershire sauce to the pan and keep whisking
- add in the cheese, reserving a quarter of each for the topping, plus the chorizo and onions, and keep stirring
- tip the drained pasta into the cheese sauce and mix well
- tip into a large dish and top with the cherry tomatoes
- sprinkle over the panko, parmesan and the rest of the cheese and bake for 35 minutes
Notes
- you may need one of these from Amazon
- If you find that your companion has gone blue at the lips, follow these steps:
- place the heel of your hand on the centre of the person's chest, then place the other hand on top and press down by 5-6cm (2-2.5 inches) at a steady rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute.
- after every 30 chest compressions, give two rescue breaths.
- tilt the casualty's head gently and lift the chin up with two fingers. Pinch the person’s nose. Seal your mouth over their mouth and blow steadily and firmly into their mouth for about one second. Check that their chest rises. Give two rescue breaths.
- continue with cycles of 30 chest compressions and two rescue breaths until they begin to recover or emergency help arrives
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Cuisine Italian
Now of course one must remember that this is a diet blog so, if the above has left you leaking like a broken fridge but unable to see said leak because you’ve got a continental shelf rather than a gunt, panic not. We’ve got you, fam – here’s some diet takes on macaroni cheese to keep you going:
- chicken, rosemary and goat cheese macaroni cheese (3.5 syns)
- rick stein’s delicious dirty macaroni (2.5 syns)
- chilli beefy macaroni cheese (3.5 syns)
- pimped macaroni cheese (1.5 syns)
- macaroni cheese (1 syn)
Enjoy!
J