Macaroni Pie – Recipe
Don’t have a heart attack but I cooked last week.
I’ve been craving macaroni and cheese or macaroni pie for ages now and well I figured I’d just have to get up and make it if I wanted it so bad.
Of course I was fasting.
I’ve posted about macaroni pie before and even Bajan macaroni pie but never provided you with pictures of how we make it at home.
So, I took pictures.
Now the recipe I’m going to give you is just how I made it. Different people make it differently…and depending on the ingredients at hand or what we want we make it differently too. Some people don’t put as much cheese, some put some milk, no milk, lots of milk. Sometimes we even put minced beef in there. Sometimes veggies or pepper sauce. It’s all good! :)
Ingredients
- 2 packs of macaroni (It’s thicker than spaghetti)
- salt
- butter or margarine
- 4 eggs
- mustard*
- 750g cheddar cheese*
- salt and black pepper
Method
- Boil macaroni until nice and soft in salted water
- Drain macaroni (don’t rinse)
- Melt some butter in the pot, add some seasoning
- Add the macaroni back to the put and turn until coated
- Beat the eggs and add to the pot and turn
- Add mustard and add cheese* (save some cheese for the top!) and turn until everything is melted and properly incorporated
- Turn out into a large rectangular pan (I had two but that’s because I made thin pies. Usually I make thicker pies and could’ve fit this in one pan) and cover the top with cheese
- With the oven somewhere between 350-400 F, bake until nice and golden on top (45min-1hr?)
You can wait until it’s set to eat but it’s nice when it’s hot. Hey it’s nice when it’s cold from the fridge too and you’re too lazy to microwave it.
Now, I didn’t really tell you how much of any thing. You should average and taste to see if it agrees with you. I was fasting so I couldn’t…You can put as much cheese as you want!!!
* Now when it comes to the mustard and cheese for the macaroni pie, this amount is very subjective. In my family, we apply my brother’s rule for this and macaroni and cheese and pizza (for applying cheese not mustard), “when you think there’s enough, add more!”. Both for mustard and cheese. We like the flavour for the mustard. And we’ve made many a pie which we thought was plenty cheesy and then we baked it and tho it tasted good…we were like… (sob) not enough cheese (sob).
Well, I hope this helps you to construct your own macaroni pie…! :)
