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While the pasta is cooking, make the sauce. You'll need these goodies: Center-Cut Bacon, Extra Sharp Cheddar, Parmesan Cheese, Cubed Butternut Squash, a small yellow onion, Elbow Macaroni, Dry Mustard, Salt & Pepper, and pinch'a Nutmeg. Didn't make the cut for the photo: Chicken Broth and Lowfat Milk.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have butternut squash mac and cheese with bacon using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese with Bacon:
- Take 3 cups macaroni noodles
- Make ready 2 cups diced butternut squash
- Prepare 1 lbs bacon, diced
- Make ready 1 onion, diced
- Prepare 5 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 1.5 tsp dried thyme
- Take 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- Take 1 tsp paprika
- Get 1/4 cup white wine
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
- Prepare 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Make ready 1/2 cup chicken stock
- Prepare 1.5 cups shredded mozzarella
- Get 1 cups gruyere cheese
While pasta is cooking, heat oil in large skillet on medium heat. Bacon Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese Recipe Notes. If you don't normally stock panko, you can order it from amazon or find it next to the bread crumbs at the grocery store. You can substitute bread crumbs here, but I really recommend panko for its superior crunch and texture.
Steps to make Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese with Bacon:
- In a large pot, cook pasta just shy of el dente
- Meanwhile in an oven proof skillet, brown bacon.
- Once the pasta is cooked, drain and set aside in colander. Then place the pot back on the heat, boil water and cook the diced butternut squash until soft. Drain the water from the squash, add the chicken broth and blend with hand blender. Once blended add the cream. (If you dont have a hand blender, add all this to a blender and blend until smooth and return back to the pot.
- Going back to the skillet, once bacon is crisp, remove and set aside. Drain some of the fat from the pan. Add your onions and garlic and seasoning (except paprika) and cook until onions are translucent. This is for about 5 min. Then add your wine to deglaze. Turn off heat.
- Going back to the pot with the butternut squash puree, once it's warmed through add 2 cups of your shredded cheese and your paprika and stir. Remove from heat. Add your onion mixture to the pot. Mix to combine.
- Add your cooked macaroni to your cheesy sauce and mix. Stir in half of your crumbled bacon.
- Pour everything back into your oven safe skillet (or leave it in the pot IF its oven proof) top your mac with the remaining cheese and crumbled bacon. Bake in oven at 375°F for 30-35min or until bubbly and brown.
Turn the heat to low and stir in the mashed butternut squash. When it is warmed through, stir in the cheese. If the sauce is too thick when the cheese is melted, add a splash of milk. Keep stirring until the sauce is nice and hot. Stir in the onions and then the macaroni.
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