Macaroni au Gratin

Name: Macaroni au Gratin
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons butter (plus more for topping and buttering dish); 4 tablespoons flour; 3 cups milk; 1 cube chicken bouillon; 1 cup short grain white rice; 1 lb penne pasta; 1-2 lbs chicken thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces; 1 bunch asparagus; 1 yellow onion; Salt & pepper; Parmesan cheese

Lenacar @cook_112928535

Macaroni au Gratin

Lenacar @cook_112928535

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Ingredients

1 hr

4 people

4 tablespoonsbutter (plus more for topping and buttering dish)
4 tablespoonsflour
3 cupsmilk
1 cubechicken bouillon
1 cupshort grain white rice
1 lbpenne pasta
1-2 lbschicken thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 bunchasparagus
1yellow onion
Salt & pepper
Parmesan cheese

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Steps

1 hr

1

Cook white rice.
2

Make roux: Melt 4 tablespoons butter in sauce pot. Add flour and cook for a couple minutes. Slowly add milk and whisk thoroughly. Add bouillon cube, salt and pepper.
3

Cook pasta to al dente. Add some salted pasta water into roux.
4

Heat oil in an empty dutch oven. Add chicken thigh pieces, onion and asparagus together and cook through. Add a bit of s&p. Add cooked pasta. Add roux. Mix all together.
5

Heat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
6

While oven heats, butter a 9x13 glass dish. Add cooked white rice to the bottom. Pour entire pasta mixture over rice. Top with slivers of butter and lots of parmesan cheese.
7

Broil for around 15 minutes, or until top gets toasty brown.