Spicy Roasted Green Pepper Macaroni and Cheese Topped with Easy Green Chili
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Ingredients
- 3-4 cups elbow macaroni noodles
- 6 Slices of bacon
- 2-3 cups whole milk
- 2- 3 spicy roasted green peppers (I use farmers market roasted green peppers, moderately to very spicy)
- 5 cloves garlic, diced
- 1 small onion diced
- 1/2 block of velveeeta cheese (family size, or one whole small block) cubed
- 3 cups shredded Mexican cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup – 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- Green Chili for topping (recipe below)
Directions
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Then drain but do not rinse. Set pasta aside
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cook bacon until golden brown (in cast iron baking dish if you have it), remove and chop. Do not discard bacon grease.
- Sauté onion and garlic and in the bacon grease for just a few minutes.
- Add milk, and cheeses until smooth. When mixture is all melted add chopped roasted green peppers. And salt and pepper as desired.
- Mix macaroni and bacon into the cheese mixture.
- Top with bread crumbs
- Bake in preheated oven until bread crumbs are a little brown.
- Top with green Chili
- ENJOY!
Green Chili Recipe
You can find it here as well….
- Chop up one onion and 5 or 6 cloves of garlic.
- Sautee with one stick of butter (the real stuff).
- Add a couple large spoonfuls of flour to make a rogue.
- THEN… add two cups of water.
- 3 bullion cubes
- 1 bag full of cleaned, seeded and chopped roasted green peppers (10-12) (we get our roasted peppers at farmers markets, etc and they come in sandwich bags, I just use full one.
- Bring to a boil and let thicken.
- Add a couple teaspoons of cumin and salt and pepper to taste