It's been months since my last post. Well, things have been very hectic lately with gazillion things that has to be done in a very short period of time.
Anyway, lil G has been having eating tantrum again. She didn't want to eat what the maid cooked her (mommy too busy to cook lately... i'm so sorry baby). This time, she really drove me to insanity. The only food she would eat pretty much unhealthy junk food. Cakes, chips, cookies...
Well, after finding a cute moon and star shaped pasta, I decided to try giving her macaroni and cheese or in this case I should call it moon and star pasta and cheese? hehehe.... I'm glad she finished almost the entire mini pot of the mac n cheese (with daddy finishing the last scoop), which she didn't even realized she was eating salmon. The one fish that she always refused to eat. Enough rambling, here is the recipe.
Salmon Mac n Cheese
Serve 2 mini pots (about 9 cm in diameter)
3 tbsp butter
1 tbsp flour
3 tsp djon mustard
1/8 cup cream
1/3 cup milk
1/3 cup macaroni (or cute kids pasta)
40 gr salmon filet
50 gr grated gruyere cheese
25 gr kraft quick melt or velveeta cheese
2 tbsp seasoned breadcrumbs
1. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Butter two mini cast iron pots (9cm) or ramekins, whichever you have in your kitchen.
2. Boil pasta 3/4 cooked, set aside. Pan fry salmon, 3/4 cooked and flake.
3. Melt butter in a small saucepan, add the flour once all the butter as melt mix well. Add the cream little by little while stirring followed by milk and mustard. Make sure the sauce is smooth. Continue stirring until it thickens. Add both cheeses and continue stir until thick.
4. Combine the sauce with pasta and salmon, mix well.
5. Pour mac n cheese mixture into the dish and sprinkle seasoned bread crumbs on top. Bake in the oven for +/- 20-30 minutes until the bread crumbs turn golden brown and sauce is bubbly.
Note: If you don't have seasoned bread crumbs, I normally just mix panko flour with some italian seasoning.
For this particular recipe, I didn't really measure my ingredients so it's an estimate how much ingredients I use in the mac n cheese.
