Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac
Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken-broccoli baked mac. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baked macaroni and cheese that's gorgeously creamy but made with no cream! Loaded up with chicken and broccoli so it's a complete meal. There's a whole giant head of broccoli in this.

Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken-broccoli baked mac using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac:
  1. Take 500 g Elbow Macaroni -
  2. Prepare 1 Whole Boiled Chicken breast
  3. Make ready 2 heads Broccoli - w/ soft stem (or 2 cups of chopped broccoli)
  4. Get 3 big Red Bell peppers
  5. Make ready 2 big stalk Celery -
  6. Get 2 Large Red onion
  7. Prepare 4 big cloves - Garlic
  8. Take 2 Onion leaks - big stalk
  9. Take 1 1/2 Cup Grated Cheddar cheese
  10. Take 1 tbsp Salted butter
  11. Take 1 cup Cooking cream
  12. Get 1 cup All-purpose cream
  13. Make ready 200 g Tomato sauce
  14. Take 150 g Tomato paste
  15. Make ready To taste:
  16. Take Salt
  17. Make ready All-in-one seasoning
  18. Take Oregano/Italian seasoning
  19. Get Rosemary
  20. Take Cayenne pepper/Chili powder
  21. Take Ground black pepper

A little bit of turmeric enhances the color in Chicken-Broccoli Mac and Cheese with Bacon; it's a bit of a trick that makes you perceive the sauce as. Add chicken and broccoli to the already cooked macaroni pasta. Toss to make sure it is well mixed. With this broccoli mac and cheese, we're adding in a vegetable to make more of a complete meal.

Steps to make Chicken-Broccoli Baked Mac:
  1. Boil the chicken breast and the broccoli in a separate pot. While waiting for the chicken and broccoli to cook, prepare the onion, garlic, and red bell pepper, cut it in square shape. Chop the celery and onion leaks finely. (Do not over cook the broccoli)
  2. Shred or chop the boiled chicken breast and broccoli to smaller pieces.
  3. Boil the macaroni as per suggested by the instruction in the packaging. The goal is a half-cooked macaroni so that there will be room for the sauce to be absorbed by our pasta. Rinse the macaroni with cold water, remove the water then set aside.
  4. Prepare a large pot to cook the red sauce. Saute the garlic and onions with Veggie oil(or any oil) in low heat. Then put in the shreded chicken, chopped red bell pepper, broccoli, onion leaks, and celery when the onion is translucent. Sprinkle a fair amount of salt, Cayenne/Chili powder, ground black pepper and rosemary, according to your taste. Pour the tomato sauce and paste when the veggies are sauted nicely, cook in medium heat.
  5. When the red sauce mixture simmered, pour the cooked macaroni in the pot (make sure that the pot is big enough). Sprinkle the Oregano/Italian seasoning and 1/2 cup of cheddar. Stir gently. Wait until the macaroni absorbed the sauce well.
  6. For the white sauce, prepare a large bowl and mix the room temp. Salted butter, 1 cup of cooking cream, 1 cup of all-purpose cream, and 1/2 cup of cheddar. Mix it all together.
  7. Place the macaroni in a large rectangle pan or 2 medium rectangle pan (pyrex glassware can also be used). Pour a fair amount of white sauce and top it with the remaining cheddar cheese prepared. Garnish with dried basil leaves (optional).
  8. Bake it in a preheated oven 350 degrees F for about 30-35 mins.

You can also add cooked chicken to this homemade This baked mac and cheese works well as a make-ahead meal. You can prep the casserole in the afternoon, or up to one day ahead, and then bake it. This lightened-up mac and cheese is the best way to sneak in some veggies for those picky eaters! I took a trashy mac and cheese, and made it less trashy. Hey, apparently vegetables are good for you.

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