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  • Serves 4
  • 70 minutes
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 9 Ingredients

58 Comments

A Delicious take on a old recipe. My 2 year old absolutely loves this.


Ingredients (serves 4)

  • 375g Elbow Macaroni
  • 300g Spinach trimmed
  • 1 Brown onion Diced
  • 50g Plain flour
  • 50g Butter
  • 1 Litre Hot Milk
  • 180g Cheddar cheese Grated
  • 35g Stale breadcrumbs
  • 4 Rashes Bacon diced.

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 200c
  2. Cook pasta in large saucepan until tender and drain
  3. Microwave Spinach until wilted then drain and rinse under cold water and drain again. squeeze liquid from spinach and then chop
  4. Cook onion and bacon in a medium saucepan until soft then transfer to a large bowl
  5. Melt butter in the same pan add flour and cook stirring until thick and bubbling .Gradually add hot milk until mixture boils and thickens remove from heat and stir in cheddar
  6. Combine pasta, bacon and onion mixture,spinach and cheese sauce in a bowl .
  7. Pour into greased casserole dish and top with breadcrumbs
  8. Cook uncovered for 30 minutes.

  • My kids might eat spinach if I add it to mac and cheese…

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  • Love the addition of the spinach to he mac and cheese.

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  • Oh yeah, ultimate winter comfort food, love the healthy addition of spinach

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  • Love the addition of the spinach and bacon – I do this to the packet ones lol.
    Will have to try and make it from scratch when I have the time.

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  • I like the spinach added to the mac and cheese!


    • It is quite delicious and I love the colour too.

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  • Mac and cheese with spinach goodness.

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  • Yum, good comfort food for winter.

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  • What a fabulous idea to add some colour and veg to this dish.

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  • thanks though for sharing this recipe with the mums and making the effort to post this

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  • Looks so easy to make, thanks for sharing

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  • looks delicious, thanks for sharing

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  • A delicious and a yummy treat

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  • Thanks for sharing this recipe

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  • this is a good recipe but my kids won’t eat green

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  • Yes to macaroni cheese, the spinach? I might try it.

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  • love a good mac and cheese, great idea adding the spinach in, even the kids will love this

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  • Sounds very tasty – thank you

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  • I reckon you could add all sorts of vegies to this recipe, and it would taste amazing. I love using garlic & chilli to savoury dishes, so I’d definitely add some to this. I guess you could also substitute chicken or another meat for the bacon too.

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  • thanks should be a easy recipe to hide some extra vegies in

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  • easy side dish thankyou

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