{"id":394,"date":"2022-03-13T03:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T03:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekitchensingh.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2022-03-15T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T04:27:10","slug":"roasted-curry-butternut-squash-mac-and-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/2022\/03\/13\/roasted-curry-butternut-squash-mac-and-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Roasted Curry Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The SEasOning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I feel like this is going to be a bit of a contentious post. Mac and Cheese is one of those sacred comfort dishes that crosses so many cultural boundaries. Food TikTok seems to have a lot of recipes for this and even more videos of people getting dragged for their recipes. I like to think my version preserves all the best elements of mac and cheese but adds a delicious twist. The roasted butternut squash replaces the roux so you can trick yourself into thinking this is “healthy” and the curry adds a lot of great complimentary flavours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think it’s good enough that I’d get invited to a cook-out with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Serves 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ingredients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1 butternut squash peeled and cubed<\/li>
1 medium yellow onion finely diced<\/li>
3 cloves of garlic peeled and minced<\/li>
1 tbsp curry powder<\/li>
1 tsp Kashmiri chili powder<\/li>
350g old cheddar cheese grated<\/li>
350g pizza mozzarella cheese grated<\/li>
1 cup milk<\/li>
500g dry macaroni <\/li>
1 tbsp + 1 tbsp canola oil<\/li>
Salt and pepper to taste<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The Method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Pre-heat your oven to 350F<\/li>
Toss the cubed squash in 1 tbsp of olive oil, curry powder and salt and pepper. Roast for 30-40 min till the squash is soft and starting to brown<\/li>
Once baked, transfer to a blender, add the milk and blend till smooth<\/li>
Meanwhile, cook the pasta per the instructions on the box, but cook about 2 min short of al dente. When cooked, drain and reserve the pasta<\/li>
In a heavy bottomed pot over medium heat add 1 tbsp of canola oil and sweat your onions and garlic. Once translucent add in the blended butternut squash and chili powder.<\/li>
Once the mixture heats about add about 3\/4 of the cheeses little by little stirring constantly. Let the cheese melt in between each addition. Insert in a fold in the cheese reference.<\/li>
After you’ve melted in the cheese, add in the reserved macaroni and stir to combine.<\/li>
Pour half this cheesy goodness into a a greased 8″x8″ pan and top with the half reserved cheese. Add the remaining macaroni and top with the remaining cheese<\/li>
Put this into a 350F oven for 30-40 min or until the cheese on top has melted and browned. If you’re using an 8″x8″ pan you may want to place this on a baking sheet. This really fills up the pan and you may get a little spill over. <\/li>
Remove from the oven and let this sit for at least 10 minutes. If you try to slice this up right away you’ll end up with mac and cheese soup<\/li>
Slice and serve!<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n\nSeasoned Squash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nRoasted Squash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBlended Squash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGrated cheese and aromatics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSweat the aromatics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFold in the cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMelt the Cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAd more cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBaked Mac and Cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThat cheese pull!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The SEasOning I feel like this is going to be a bit of a contentious post. Mac and Cheese is one of those sacred comfort dishes that crosses so many cultural boundaries. Food TikTok seems to have a lot of recipes for this and even more videos of people getting dragged for their recipes. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[87,8,86,16,12,84,85,83,11,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/10_Cheese-Pull-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.4.20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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