Feeling like eating creamy and tasty dish? Yes, you are looking at the right thing. Macaroni and cheese is often enjoyed during dinner with the whole family. The rich milky taste will leave you with memorable taste on your tongue and on your mind, without you knowing, you are craving for more macaroni and cheese now than ever.
What is Macaroni and Cheese
Macaroni and cheese is often eaten as a main dish or side dish. The delicious taste will bring the best out of you. The creamy and saucy taste of macaroni topped with spices will never make you get used to it and will continue to let you experience living outside of the box.
It is a popular dish nowadays that people keep trying to invent new recipe of macaroni and cheese topped with all sorts of ingredients and sauces to create the macaroni and cheese that best suits their adventurous palate.
History of Macaroni and Cheese
This English dish is the famous dish that has been a main dish by everyone from the ancient days to date. Macaroni is the dough that is shaped in variety of forms to create versions of pastas. Pasta were found in the writings in the 1st century AD mentioning fine sheets of fried kneaded dough were the main dish for everyday’s meal.
In the 2nd century, a recipe of lasagna was found in one of the writings stating the recipe for lasagna. Lasagna or named lagana during that area is made of kneaded wheat flour dough and was flavoured by using lettuce juice and spices. The ingredients were deep-fried to create a masterpiece lasagna during that era.
In much later years in 13th-century pasta was slowly evolved and categorised differently according to shape and texture. In present days, we have around 350 types of pasta, and every single of pasta is enjoyed differently. Pasta eaten with cheese was first introduced in the 14th century.
The first modern recipe of macaroni and cheese to record is in 1770 in Elizabeth Raffald’s book; The Experienced English Housekeeper. The old modern recipe stated that macaroni at that time was best served with a Bechamel sauce with cheddar cheese and sprinkled with parmesan cheese to experience the milky and creamy world. More modernised recipes of macaroni and cheese has been improvised by a lot of people to suit their palate.
In 1861, the macaroni started to be cooked well enough until it is perfectly firm and tender. It was then topped with more cheese, spices and breadcrumbs. Macaroni and cheese has been a very popular dish since the ancient days and becoming more global and making it well-loved as a main dish, side dish and even fast food.
How to make Macaroni and Cheese
To make macaroni and cheese, first off, you need to prepare for the ingredients. This easy and quick dish requires only macaroni, butter, corn flour, salt and pepper, milk and cheese. First of all, boil the macaroni in salted water until it firm but still tender. Over boil the macaroni will only melt the macaroni.
In 10 minutes, drain the water to keep still the firmness. Next, to prepare for the cheesy sauce, first, melt the butter in a saucepan. Pour some of the flour and mix in with salt and pepper on the melted butter saucepan. Stir the sauce and slowly add some milk and stir the mixture until it is perfectly mixed and smooth.
Add more cheese to create a strong taste of cheese. Once the cheese melted, pour in the boiled macaroni and mix it well with the cheesy sauce. Now, your macaroni and cheese is good to be enjoyed and shared with your family and friends.
Where to find Macaroni and Cheese in Malaysia
Macaroni and Cheese can be found in Barat Fusion. Barat Fusion serves the best macaroni and cheese which delivers the perfect taste of milky and creamy pasta. Grab it while it lasts.
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