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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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:

1. Prepare 500 g Elbow Macaroni -
2. Get 1 Whole Boiled Chicken breast
3. Make ready 2 heads Broccoli - w/ soft stem (or 2 cups of chopped broccoli)
4. Make ready 3 big Red Bell peppers
5. Take 2 big stalk Celery -
6. Make ready 2 Large Red onion
7. Take 4 big cloves - Garlic
8. Make ready 2 Onion leaks - big stalk
9. Make ready 1 1/2 Cup Grated Cheddar cheese
10. Prepare 1 tbsp Salted butter
11. Take 1 cup Cooking cream
12. Get 1 cup All-purpose cream
13. Get 200 g Tomato sauce
14. Prepare 150 g Tomato paste
15. Prepare To taste:
16. Prepare Salt
17. Prepare All-in-one seasoning
18. Get Oregano/Italian seasoning
19. Make ready Rosemary
20. Take Cayenne pepper/Chili powder
21. Prepare 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:

1. 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)
2. Shred or chop the boiled chicken breast and broccoli to smaller pieces.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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).
8. 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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