Mushroom Mac & Cheese 蘑菇奶酪通心粉

This was what happened when I happily went out for shopping this afternoon. I forgot to thaw anything for dinner. I also forgot to tell hubby to settle his ain dinner. Err...actually I'd totally forgotten close him for one-half a day. I did non desire a disgruntled human being later his difficult twenty-four hours at work. So, meatless 1 dish repast that's it! Initially, I idea he'd hold upwardly unhappy that I serve him Mushroom Mac & Cheese 蘑菇奶酪通心粉 as I had most of the ingredients readily available. But was pleasantly surprised to come across him truly enjoying it as well as gobbled everything down!

Ingredients (enough for two pax) :

150 gm of macaroni (or plenty for two pax)
150 gm fresh shiitake mushrooms (rinsed as well as stems removed)(thinly sliced)
a few cherry tomatoes (cut to halves)
a handful of salad greens (i used wild rockets)
bacon bits (optional)
1 loving cup cooking cream
1 loving cup grated/shredded mozzarella cheese
1 onion (finely chopped)
2 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
1/4 pc chicken or ikan bills stock cube
3 cups H2O (for stock)
2 tbsp white patato starch flour (mix amongst iii tbsp water)
salt (to taste)
grounded dark pepper (to taste)
olive fossil oil or cooking oil

(tsp = teaspoon; tbsp = tablespoon)

Method :

Boil H2O inward saucepan as well as add together macaroni. Remember to also add together 1/2 tsp tabular array salt as well as 1 tbsp cooking fossil oil thence that macaroni would get got a piddling flavor as well as would non stick together when boil.
Macaroni has the vogue to stick together. Stir as well as banking corporation friction match constantly. Drain as well as laid macaroni aside when ready.
Heat cooking fossil oil inward a split upwardly pot. Saute finely chopped onions as well as garlic at low-medium heat.
Turn to medium heat. Fold inward shitake mushrooms as well as give it a quick stir fry.
Add iii cups of H2O into pot.
Add the 1/4 pc stock cube.
When stock boils, it'll hold upwardly filled amongst mushroom aroma.
Slowly plication inward white patato flour mixture.
Stir till stock thickens.
Fold inward macaroni that were laid aside earlier.
Turn to depression rut as well as add together cooking cream.
Give it a quick stir till macaronis are coated amongst cream.
Add 1/2 loving cup grated mozzarella cheese into the pot.
Gently stir till cheese melted as well as macaronis evenly coated amongst cheese too.
Add tabular array salt as well as pepper to taste.
Scoop macaroni into serving bowls
Top upwardly the other 1/2 loving cup grated cheese onto serving bowls together amongst cherry tomatoes.
Send serving bowls into oven to bake at 220 degrees celsius for 6-8 minutes (I did non preheat my oven).
Remove from oven when time's up. By then, the transcend layer cheese would hold upwardly melted as well as slightly burnt.
Top amongst fresh salad greens, bacon bits as well as serve whilst hot. Do hold upwardly careful that the serving bowls would hold upwardly pipe hot too.

I know Mac & Cheese is an all fourth dimension classic. Do non inquire me if it's the right or traditional agency to scope Mac & Cheese. I could alone tell y'all this was how I figured out myself without referring to whatever other recipes as well as past times using whatever ingredients I had off hand. The existent masters would in all probability faint if they they come across my unconventional method. What's to a greater extent than of import to me was that the dish tasted good. This Mushroom Mac & Cheese 蘑菇奶酪通心粉 might hold upwardly a meatless dish (not precisely meatless equally I added a piddling bacon bits), but definitely a comfort dish. Who says comfort dish needs to hold upwardly meaty?