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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken-broccoli baked mac using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac:
- Take 500 g Elbow Macaroni -
- Take 1 Whole Boiled Chicken breast
- Take 2 heads Broccoli - w/ soft stem (or 2 cups of chopped broccoli)
- Make ready 3 big Red Bell peppers
- Make ready 2 big stalk Celery -
- Make ready 2 Large Red onion
- Get 4 big cloves - Garlic
- Take 2 Onion leaks - big stalk
- Make ready 1 1/2 Cup Grated Cheddar cheese
- Prepare 1 tbsp Salted butter
- Make ready 1 cup Cooking cream
- Make ready 1 cup All-purpose cream
- Get 200 g Tomato sauce
- Make ready 150 g Tomato paste
- Take To taste:
- Make ready Salt
- Take All-in-one seasoning
- Make ready Oregano/Italian seasoning
- Get Rosemary
- Prepare Cayenne pepper/Chili powder
- Make ready Ground black pepper
Drain macaroni or pasta and broccoli florets. Add back to the pot and add chicken to the pasta and broccoli. Add cheese to milk sauce and stir to melt it in, a minute or so. Baked Broccoli Mac and Cheese Recipe.
Instructions to make Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac:
- Boil the chicken breast and the broccoli in a separate pot. While waiting for the chicken and broccoli to cook, prepare the onion, garlic, and red bell pepper, cut it in square shape. Chop the celery and onion leaks finely. (Do not over cook the broccoli)
- Shred or chop the boiled chicken breast and broccoli to smaller pieces.
- Boil the macaroni as per suggested by the instruction in the packaging. The goal is a half-cooked macaroni so that there will be room for the sauce to be absorbed by our pasta. Rinse the macaroni with cold water, remove the water then set aside.
- Prepare a large pot to cook the red sauce. Saute the garlic and onions with Veggie oil(or any oil) in low heat. Then put in the shreded chicken, chopped red bell pepper, broccoli, onion leaks, and celery when the onion is translucent. Sprinkle a fair amount of salt, Cayenne/Chili powder, ground black pepper and rosemary, according to your taste. Pour the tomato sauce and paste when the veggies are sauted nicely, cook in medium heat.
- When the red sauce mixture simmered, pour the cooked macaroni in the pot (make sure that the pot is big enough). Sprinkle the Oregano/Italian seasoning and 1/2 cup of cheddar. Stir gently. Wait until the macaroni absorbed the sauce well.
- For the white sauce, prepare a large bowl and mix the room temp. Salted butter, 1 cup of cooking cream, 1 cup of all-purpose cream, and 1/2 cup of cheddar. Mix it all together.
- Place the macaroni in a large rectangle pan or 2 medium rectangle pan (pyrex glassware can also be used). Pour a fair amount of white sauce and top it with the remaining cheddar cheese prepared. Garnish with dried basil leaves (optional).
- Bake it in a preheated oven 350 degrees F for about 30-35 mins.
Add cheese to milk sauce and stir to melt it in, a minute or so. Baked Broccoli Mac and Cheese Recipe. I add a little seasoning blend to the sauce. My husband - the non-veggie eater - eats every pice of broccoli on his plate! This lightened-up mac and cheese is the best way to sneak in some veggies for those picky eaters!
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