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Cheesy Baked Mac with Bechamel Sauce Recipe
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cheesy baked mac with bechamel sauce using 29 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Baked Mac with Bechamel Sauce:
- Get Meat Sauce
- Make ready 1/2 kilo ground beef
- Get 5 cups water
- Get Cayenne pepper
- Make ready Paprika
- Make ready Oregano
- Get Salt
- Take Black pepper
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup sliced hot
- Make ready 1 head garlic
- Take 1 onion
- Get 3/4 cup butter
- Take 2 tomatoes
- Prepare 3/4 cup tomato sauce
- Make ready 1/4 cup ketchup (i used banana ketchup)
- Make ready 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Prepare Pasta
- Take 350 grams pasta (macaroni or zita penne)
- Get 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
- Get Salt
- Make ready Bechamel Sauce
- Make ready 3/4 cup butter or margarine
- Prepare 1/2 cup flour
- Make ready 3 cups milk
- Make ready Salt
- Get Pepper
- Make ready 1/2 cup grated cheese
- Take Extra Topping
- Take 2 cups grated cheese
Steps to make Cheesy Baked Mac with Bechamel Sauce:
- Prepare the beef. Blanch the ground beef in water. Once the water evaporates and only about half of it remains, season with salt and pepper. When there’s only very little water left, season with cayenne, paprika and oregano. Add half a tablespoon of soy sauce. You may add salt and pepper if you prefer more. Set aside.
- Sauté the garlic and onion in butter/margarine. Add in the sliced sausage. Once the sausage are half-cooked, add in the sliced tomatoes. Let the tomatoes soften in form then pour in the tomato sauce, ketchup and the remaining soy sauce. Season with salt and pepper as preferred. Add the ground beef and continue stirring for 5-10mins. Set aside.
- Boil some water in a pan. Once boiling, put in butter and salt. Add the pasta and cook until al dente. Strain to remove water. Mix the pasta and sauce and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit or 180 degrees celsius.
- Melt the butter/margarine in a pan. Add the flour and continue mixing until there are no lumps. TIP: sift the flour into the pan so that the flour won’t get too lumpy. Pour the milk and add the grated cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Continue stirring until thick. Set aside.
- Prepare the baking pan / glass baking dish. Put in one layer or half of the pasta with sauce. Spread half of the bechamel sauce. Add half of the grated cheese. Layer the remaining pasta. Add the remaining bechamel sauce. Spread the remaining grated cheese especially on uncovered areas if there are any.
- Baked in the oven for 20mins or until the the top melts and darkens a bit.
- Serve sausage or chillled. To reheat, just slide it in the microwave for a few minutes! Enjoy!
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