The BEST Mac N Cheese!! We’ve partnered with @SanRemoPasta to bring you this dish for International Day of Families!
Mac N Cheese

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Serves: 6 - 8 People
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- Prep time: 20 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 50 minutes
- Serves: 6 - 8 People
Ingredients
- 200 g Speck
- 500 g San Remo Macaroni
- 1 Brown onion
- 1 Head of cauliflower
- 2 Lemons
- 4 slices Bread
- 100 g Parmesan
- 100 g Butter
- 250 g Gruyere
- Salt
- Pepper
Method
- 1)
Preheat oven to 220°C.
- 2)
Slice 200g of speck.
- 3)
Get speck crispy in a pan on high heat for approx 6 minutes, then remove from the pan.
- 4)
Cook pasta in pot of boiling water with a pinch of salt until el dente (8 mins).
- 5)
Strain pasta and run under cold water to stop cooking.
- 6)
Finely chop 1 brown onion.
- 7)
Pop onion into pan with the residual fat from speck and sweat down on low heat for approx. 4 mins.
- 8)
Slice head of cauliflower.
- 9)
Add cauliflower to pot with zest of 1 lemon. Put on heat for 8 mins.
- 10)
Add 4 slices of bread, zest of 1 lemon, handful of parsley, 50g of parmesan and 1 teaspoon of salt to blender and blitz to a bread crumb consistency. Then transfer into a bowl.
- 11)
Add cauliflower to blender after cooked with 50g parmesan, juice of 1/2 a lemon, 100g of butter, a pinch of salt and a few cracks of pepper and blitz.
- 12)
Put pasta into a pan, scatter speck over the top, then pour the sauce over, mix throughout and then smear the pasta down.
- 13)
Grate 250g of gruyere over the top.
- 14)
Pour pangrattato mix over the top (bread mix).
- 15)
And finish with grating a bit more gruyere.
- 16)
Pop in oven for 20 minutes (or until pangrattato is crispy and cheese has melted.