Baked Penne with Farmhouse Cheddar and Leeks

Name: Baked Penne with Farmhouse Cheddar and Leeks
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters all purpose flour; 59 milliliters (1/2 stick) butter; 946 milliliters pound extra-sharp cheddar cheese, coarsely grated (about packed); 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard; 2 larges eggs; 1 liters chopped leeks (white and pale green parts only; about 5 large); 454 grams penne pasta; 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce; 828 milliliters whole milk

Baked Penne with Farmhouse Cheddar and Leeks is a vegetarian main course. This recipe covers 31% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 6 servings with 826 calories, 37g of protein, and 40g of fat each. If you have pepper sauce, milk, cheddar cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Lightly butter 15x10x2-inch baking dish.Melt 1/4 cup butter in heavy large saucepanover medium heat.

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Butter

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Baking Pan

Add leeks; stir to coat.Cover saucepan and cook until leeks aretender, stirring occasionally, about 12minutes (do not brown). Uncover saucepan;add flour. Stir 2 minutes.

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All Purpose Flour

Leek

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Sauce Pan

Add milk; bringto simmer, stirring often.

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Milk

Add cheese,mustard, and pepper sauce. Stir untilcheese melts.

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Hot Sauce

Mustard

Cheese

Remove from heat. Seasoncheese sauce to taste with salt.

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Sauce

Salt

Whisk eggs in medium bowl. Graduallywhisk in 1 cup cheese sauce. Stir eggmixture into cheese sauce in saucepan.

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Cheese Sauce

Egg

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Whisk

Bowl

Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot ofboiling salted water until just tender butstill firm to bite, stirring occasionally.

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Pasta

Water

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Pot

Drain.Return to pot.

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Pot

Stir cheese sauce into pasta in pot.

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Cheese Sauce

Pasta

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Pot

Transfer to prepared baking dish. do ahead

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Baking Pan

Can be made 2 hours ahead.

Let stand atroom temperature.

Preheat oven to 400°F.

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Oven

Bake pastauntil cheese sauce is bubbling aroundedges and some ends of pasta are goldenbrown, 25 to 30 minutes.

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Cheese Sauce

Pasta

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Oven

Let stand 15 minutes.

Serve hot.

Unlike classic macand cheese, which is thickened by a roux(a flour and butter mixture), this one useseggs to make a rich, gooey custard. But becareful when adding the hot cheese sauceto the eggs; you’ll need to whisk the saucein slowly so that the eggs don’t curdle.

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Custard