{"id":38515,"date":"2013-10-29T00:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nibbledish.com\/people\/kimmallari\/recipes\/not-your-average-mac-n-cheese"},"modified":"2022-12-26T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T02:03:42","slug":"not-your-average-mac-n-cheese-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/not-your-average-mac-n-cheese-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Average Mac n Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/food2please.com\/files\/2013\/03\/bc61183d0d6227744c0da7fddeaadc95.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw this on a tv show a while ago but please don&#8217;t ask me which one haha. If you love regular mac n cheese you are in for a real treat with this recipe. You probably don&#8217;t need to salt the water as the there is already plenty of salt in all the cheese. If you like a little spice in your meals add some chili flakes but not too many.You can use bacon instead of pancetta if none is available or to save a little money. One lady emailed me and said she had\u00a0chopped up 3 garlic cloves to bake within the dish, added 1 tblsp Dijon mustard and topped with bread crumbs and I must say that sounds like a wonderful addition.<\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>10 rounds of pancetta, sliced into chunks or you can use bacon.<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves garlic, minced<\/li>\n<li>1 medium onion, minced<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons flour<\/li>\n<li>3 C milk (low fat was what I used, though this is NOT a light &amp; healthy eat)<\/li>\n<li>1 lb tricolor rotini<\/li>\n<li>1 C freshly grated gruyere<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup freshly grated asiago cheese<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup freshly grated fontina\u00a0cheese<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup freshly grated parmesan\u00a0cheese<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup freshly grated mozarella\u00a0cheese<\/li>\n<li>ground black pepper<\/li>\n<li>chopped fresh parsley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Directions<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Cook the rotini pasta in salted boiling water.<\/li>\n<li>With 2 T of olive oil in a sauce pan, start rendering the pancetta slices until golden and almost crisp.<\/li>\n<li>Take out the crispy pancetta from the pan and drain off excess oil and retain at least 3 T of oil in the pan.<\/li>\n<li>Now, start with the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">blonde roux<\/span>. Melt in 3 butter. Saute the garlic and onion.<\/li>\n<li>Add 3 heaping T flour and whisk vigorously until well combined and the raw flour taste cooks off.<\/li>\n<li>Add the milk and continously whisk until the sauce thickens.<\/li>\n<li>When the sauce becomes too thick, add more milk or pasta sauce to thin it out.<\/li>\n<li>Add back the crispy pancetta and the cheeses.<\/li>\n<li>Lower down the heat and continously stir the sauce.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Add a few pinches of ground black pepper. Let simmer for a couple of mins.<\/li>\n<li>Take the pan off the heat and quickly toss the rotini with the sauce.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle with a handful of chopped fresh parsley. Enjoy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on a tv show a while ago but please don&#8217;t ask me which one haha. If you love regular mac n cheese you are in for a real treat with this recipe. You probably don&#8217;t need to salt the water as the there is already plenty of salt in all the cheese. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/food2please.com\/not-your-average-mac-n-cheese-recipe\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not Your Average Mac n Cheese<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38895,"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38515\/revisions\/38895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food2please.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}