Easy Macaroni and Cheese for Two
Easy Macaroni and Cheese for two recipe or four people. A homemade pasta oven bake casserole dish with cheese for lunch or dinner with salad.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Total Time: 45 min
- Yield: 45 min 1x
- Category: Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
- Method: Oven Baking
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 x red organic tomatoes
- 1 x red onion
- 1 1/2 cups of grated cheddar cheese (or mozzarella)
- 3 x organic eggs
- 400 ml. of milk (or Cream)
- 250 grams organic pasta (small tubes or as desired)
- Himalayan salt, Pepper
- Garlic flakes (or cloves crushed)
- Basil flakes or parsley
Instructions
- Set oven to 1850 deg. C.
- Chop tomato and onion, in blender, or as you would prefer to use them. They are better blended.
- Fill small pot with water half way and add salt, then bring to boil and add pasta for a few minutes till soft. sieve the pasta of water.
- Grate the cheese.
- Use a glass Pyrex dish for the macaroni dish, fill half the cooked macaroni’s in the Pyrex dish layered at the bottom.
- Spice with garlic over the layer while warm.
- Spread half the tomato and onion mixture over the macaroni’s.
- Layer some grated cheese over the tomato mixture.
- Do a second and last layer of the pasta, garlic flakes galore, then tomato mixture and cheese finally.
- Sprinkle the basil flakes on the top of the cheese.
- Whisk the eggs and milk, with salt and pepper.
- Pour over the macaroni mixture in the dish until the base of the macaroni’s are covered.
- Place in the oven and bake until brown and the mixture has firmed.
- You will notice it through the glass Pyrex sides.(see photo)
- Makes a meal for four, with salad. Two large meals, if desired.
Notes
This is a particular favorite family dish, from my mother. It has been modified a little to suite my family. Normally we would use elbow macaroni, for this dish. But any available pasta will do.