Recipe: Yummy Mama's prawn mac&cheese

Mama's prawn mac&cheese.

You can have Mama's prawn mac&cheese using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mama's prawn mac&cheese

1. Prepare of For the prawn.
2. It's 2 of small garlic cloves.
3. It's 350 gr of or prawn, peeled and deveined, cut up if they're big.
4. You need 1 tbsp of butter.
5. Prepare of Olive oil.
6. Prepare of For pasta.
7. Prepare 250 gr of elbow or macaroni pasta, cooked in Salted water.
8. You need of For the cheese sauce.
9. You need 125 ml of thickened cream.
10. You need 2.5 tbsp of butter.
11. Prepare 1 of small onion, chopped.
12. You need 2 of garlic, chopped.
13. It's 2.5 tbsp of flour.
14. It's 1 cup of cheese.
15. You need 1.5 cup of mixed cheese.
16. You need 1 of bit of breadcrumbs.
17. Prepare 1 of bit of chopped fresh parsley.

Mama's prawn mac&cheese step by step

1. Cook pasta as per packet instruction and drain.
2. To cook the prawn: melt butter with a splash of olive oil, then fry the prawns and garlic until they're cooked, approx 2 minutes.
3. Pre heat the oven to 180 celcius.
4. To cook the cheese sauce: Heat the butter in a large pan over medium-high heat. When it's hot, saute the onion until soft and translucent, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and saute another minute..
5. Add the flour to the pan, mix it well and stir often until it browns a bit. Gradually pour in the cream, mixing it well.
6. Add cheese a little bit at a time, mixing it well..
7. Mix well the pasta, prawns and cheese sauce, then put them in a baking dish. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and parsley, bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.