Broccoli mushroom cheddar mac and cheese. Cheesy mac and cheese with sharp cheddar, parmesan, and broccoli. There's something wonderfully comforting about macaroni and cheese, isn't there? Especially in the dead of winter when you are looking for excuses not to venture outside your house into the cold.
Make a meal out of your mac and cheese with Rachael Ray's Mac and Cheese with Chicken and Broccoli recipe. This Broccoli Mac & Cheese from Delish.com is the best. Here's what you need: mac 'n' cheese, broccoli, grated cheddar cheese, pepper. You can have Broccoli mushroom cheddar mac and cheese using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Broccoli mushroom cheddar mac and cheese
- 🢂 2 of broccoli heads.
- 🢂 16 oz of sliced mushrooms.
- 🢂 1 of small onion.
- 🢂 4 cloves of garlic.
- 🢂 200 g of grated cheddar cheese.
- 🢂 16 oz of elbow pasta (macaroni).
- 🢂 1 cup of milk.
- 🢂 2 tbsp of flour.
- 🢂 2 tbsp of butter.
Add cooked broccoli, cheddar cheese, and pepper stir until fully incorporated. Add cheese to milk sauce and stir to melt it in, about a minute or so. Stir in mustard and season sauce with salt and pepper. And it is the perfect way to sneak in those greens!
step by step Broccoli mushroom cheddar mac and cheese
- Steam broccoli florets while making sure that they are not overcooked. Keep aside.
- Boil the pasta on salted water and keep aside.
- Heat butter in a sauce pan, and saute garlic and onion for 3-4 minutes.
- Add mushrooms and saute until tender. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix. For extra spice, use red pepper flakes.
- Mix flour with 1/2 cut water and add this mixture to the sauce pan. Mix well (avoid lumps).
- Slowly add milk while stirring. Turn off the heat.
- Add in the grated cheese and mix until the cheese fully melts..
- Mix in the steamed broccoli and boiled pasta..
- Transfer the whole mixture to a oven proof greased pan..
- Top with bread crumbs or Romano cheese.
- Bake at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes or until cheese starts bubbling on the sides.
- Serve hot with garlic bread.
I also did you guys a favor and added broccoli. Try this comforting quinoa mac and cheese with broccoli, creamy white cheddar sauce & a cracker crust topping. This version contains melted white cheddar cheese, fresh broccoli and protein packed quinoa! Somewhere in the midst of that conversation, I mentioned that I had just made an epic batch of Broccoli Chicken Mac & Cheese earlier that day, but had writer's block and couldn't think of what on earth to write about it other than. Measure out two cups of grated cheddar cheese.