Cauliflower Hatch Chile Macaroni & Cheese Recipe

There are for sure dishes that no thing how many times I brand them, I’m ever looking for a ameliorate recipe. Macaroni as well as cheese is 1 of them. You know a skillful macaroni as well as cheese when you lot gustatory modality it. For me, it’s rich but non oily, gooey amongst melted cheese as well as amongst no graininess to the sauce. It’s also got a lilliputian sudden border to it. I unremarkably start amongst a bechamel, but I’ve never been convinced that it’s the perfect sauce base. 

I swallow a lot of cauliflower as well as I’m past times no agency the offset to uncovering that pureed it tin stand upwards inwards for all kinds of creamy sauces. For this recipe I was inspired past times ii recipes, one from Mark Bittman as well as another from Michelle Obama. Yup. Michelle Obama. It’s a recipe that is floating around the meshing but I actually couldn’t abide by real many comments from readers who had tried it, thus I simply went for it. The whole grain pasta as well as cauliflower add-on brand this a healthier recipe than some, but I even thus wouldn't telephone telephone it healthy. 

My version of this recipe differs a chip from the Bittman recipe inwards that I run to a greater extent than cheese as well as a chip of milk. It differs from the Obama recipe inwards that I run macaroni, non penne as well as I used a chip less milk. Lots of recipes run unlike styles of pasta, but in that place is a argue why this dish is called "macaroni as well as cheese" it's because macaroni actually is the best cast for it. I also flavored my mac as well as cheese amongst dry out mustard as well as roasted Hatch chiles. This twelvemonth for the offset fourth dimension I used mild chiles. My recommendation? Combine a lilliputian chip of hot or medium hot chiles amongst some mild ones to larn enough of chile flavour as well as simply a hint of heat. This recipe is infinitely adaptable, skip the chiles, add together more, or run whatever chiles you lot similar best. 

Note: If you lot prefer a mac as well as cheese amongst a baked cheesy or crusty top, experience gratis to add together one! I’m to a greater extent than oftentimes than non also lazy to bother. 

Cauliflower Hatch Republic of Chile Macaroni & Cheese 

Serves vi - 8

Ingredients

1 pound whole wheat macaroni

1 pound cauliower, most 1/2 large head
1/2 loving cup milk 

1 teaspoon dry out mustard, or to a greater extent than to taste

1 pound shredded melting cheese (I used a combination of jack as well as cheddar)

1 1/2 cups diced roasted peeled as well as seeded Hatch chiles, or to a greater extent than to gustatory modality (hot, medium, mild or a combination)

Instructions

Bring salted H2O to a boil as well as develop the pasta until al dente as well as thus drain as well as laid aside. In the meantime, boil or steam the cauliflower. When tender transfer the cauliflower to a blender along amongst the milk as well as dry out mustard as well as puree.

Drain the pasta as well as provide it to the pot. Pour inwards the cauliflower puree, cheese as well as chiles as well as stir until the cheese is completely melted. Taste as well as add together to a greater extent than mustard or chiles if desired. Serve immediately

Enjoy! 

Disclaimer: My cheers to Mollie Stone's Markets as well as Melissa’s create for giving me a v pound carton of roasted chiles. If you lot alive inwards the Bay Area  there’s even thus several to a greater extent than dates during 2017 to attend a chile roast as well as stock up. 

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