Cheesy macaroni with minced beef casserole

This wonderful delicious recipe is from Ashley Wagner and her recipe link is here

http://www.centercutcook.com/cheesy-macaroni-and-beef-casserole/

It was full flavoured with cheese and the minced beef.

The top was also amazing with cheese and panko crumbs!

I did mine as a reduced portion and I skipped chili powder

Ingredients (reduced portion)

1/4 piece Onion chopped, 1 large pc garlic chopped, 300 gm minced beef, 1/2 can of diced tomatoes (about 200 gm), macaroni about 200 gm, paprika n black pepper and salt, lite sour cream 1/2 cup, milk 2 tablespoon, oil for frying

Panko crumbs 1/2 cup 

Shredded cheddar cheese slightly more than 2 cups

Method

1. Cook macaroni and drain water and set aside 

2. Prepare beef

Please fry the onions with about 1 tablespoon oil till a bit translucent

Add in the garlic and fry for about 30 seconds

Turn fire to low heat now

Add in the minced beef, salt 1/2 teaspoon, sprinkle black pepper and paprika and fry till beef is browned

You may need to adjust by adding a little oil so that the beef won't stick to base of pan

Now add in the diced tomato with juice and fry for a while more.

Now add in the macaroni, the sour cream n milk n the cheddar cheese 1 cup. Stir for awhile . Off the fire and stir evenly.

3. Baking 

Place into a casserole ( I used a round glass one)

Cover the macaroni top with 1/2 cup or more cheddar cheese 

Top with 1/2 cup of Panko crumbs

Do not expose macaroni or they turn hard

Bake in oven at 190 degree Celsius for about 30 minutes and the top browns nicely . I did turn the dish at about 15 mins for more even browning.

Frying beef with tomato

Added macaroni 

Added the other ingredients sour cream, milk, cheddar cheese

See the cheese melted?

Cover with more cheese  ( I didn't cover enough so a bit of macaroni hardened)

Cover with Panko crumbs 

Browned nicely and smells so great!

The next day I warmed again to eat as lunch

Enjoy the casserole!

Baked macaroni cheese

This is quite an awesome baked macaroni .

I followed this recipe 

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/macaroni-cheese-69

It is easy to do n I changed it slightly only.

Recipe

Ingredients 

Macaroni 250gm

1 block of cheddar cheese grated

1 packet of full cream milk - 250ml

Originally she used evaporated milk

1 egg instead of 2 eggs

Sprinkle of ground nutmeg 

Salt n pepper to taste

In addition - a few slices of luncheon meat diced

A few pcs of Swiss mushroom - remove stalk n cut into slices 

Cook the pasta with some salt 

Drain n keep warm inside the pot

While pasta is cooking, stirfry the luncheon meat n mushroom with some olive oil. Set aside.

Grate the cheese.

Keep a small bowl of cheese aside for topping.

Use the remainder cheese n mix with milk, egg,nutmeg, salt n pepper. 

Pour the cheese mix over the pasta.

Stir in the luncheon meat n mushrooms too.

Prepare a large baking dish.

Pour the mixture into the dish.

Top with the bowl of shredded cheese.

Preheat oven to 220 degree celcius.

Bake for 15-20 minutes till the topping is brown n mixture bubbling.

Fry the luncheon meat n mushroom

The cheese mixture n the bowl of grated cheese.

Before baking

After baking

Smells so wonderfully cheesy!

Happy baking!