Cheese's Baked Macaroni and Cheese

Name: Cheese's Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 79 milliliters butter; 237 milliliters dry bread crumbs, or more as needed; 227 grams package elbow macaroni; 3 Tbsps all-purpose flour; 8 servings salt and ground black pepper to taste; 473 milliliters milk; 1 small onion, chopped; 454 grams package fully cooked kielbasa sausage, cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 283 grams package sharp Cheddar cheese, cubed

Cheese's Baked Macaroni and Cheese might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. One portion of this dish contains roughly 25g of protein, 38g of fat, and a total of 595 calories. This recipe serves 8. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes. If you have kielbasa sausage, milk, elbow macaroni, 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. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Macaroni and Cheese – home made macaroni and cheese is a comfort food that is hard to beat. You can put away the pre packaged macaroni and cheese at the store, Macaroni and Cheese Baked Cheese Balls, and Boston Market Macaroni and Cheese – forget the stuff in the blue box, take a few more minutes, and serve up a tasty home made macaroni and cheese.

Instructions

Cook and stir the cut-up kielbasa in a large skillet over medium heat for 6 to 8 minutes, until heated through and beginning to brown.

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Remove the sausage from the skillet, and set aside.

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Sausage

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Fill a pan with lightly salted water, bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stir in the macaroni, and return to a boil. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the pasta has cooked through but is still firm to the bite, about 8 minutes.

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Drain well.

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.

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Melt the butter in the skillet over medium-low heat, and cook and stir the chopped onion for about 5 minutes, until translucent.

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Onion

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Whisk in the flour, stirring constantly to avoid lumps. Cook and stir the butter, onion and flour for 2 to 3 minutes to make a roux, and remove from the heat.

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Whisk in the milk a little at a time, stirring constantly, until all the milk has been incorporated, and return to low heat. Bring the sauce to a simmer, and cook over low heat for about 2 minutes, stirring constantly, to finish cooking the flour.

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