Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken-broccoli baked mac. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baked macaroni and cheese that's gorgeously creamy but made with no cream! Loaded up with chicken and broccoli so it's a complete meal. There's a whole giant head of broccoli in this.
Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken-broccoli baked mac using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac:
- Make ready 500 g Elbow Macaroni -
- Get 1 Whole Boiled Chicken breast
- Get 2 heads Broccoli - w/ soft stem (or 2 cups of chopped broccoli)
- Make ready 3 big Red Bell peppers
- Prepare 2 big stalk Celery -
- Prepare 2 Large Red onion
- Make ready 4 big cloves - Garlic
- Get 2 Onion leaks - big stalk
- Prepare 1 1/2 Cup Grated Cheddar cheese
- Get 1 tbsp Salted butter
- Prepare 1 cup Cooking cream
- Prepare 1 cup All-purpose cream
- Take 200 g Tomato sauce
- Get 150 g Tomato paste
- Prepare To taste:
- Take Salt
- Make ready All-in-one seasoning
- Get Oregano/Italian seasoning
- Make ready Rosemary
- Take Cayenne pepper/Chili powder
- Get Ground black pepper
Today I show you how I make Baked Mac and Cheese, BBQ chicken and Broccoli. With this broccoli mac and cheese, we're adding in a vegetable to make more of a complete meal. You can also add cooked chicken to this homemade This baked mac and cheese works well as a make-ahead meal. You can prep the casserole in the afternoon, or up to one day ahead, and then bake it.
Steps 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.
Try this great-tasting, hearty macaroni and cheese casserole with ham and broccoli for a nice twist on a classic dish. You may make the casserole with leftover cooked chicken or turkey or use a combination of ham and turkey or chicken. If your family isn't fond of broccoli, use steamed peas or. Broccoli is a natural in this recipe but feel free to add your favorite veggies, or you can make this dish it even heartier by adding cooked ham or chicken. Return the drained cavatappi and broccoli to the saucepan.
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