The Macarronade is a dish similar to lasagna or pasticho. It consists of short pasta with ground meat stuffed with ham, cheese, plantains, potatoes and boiled eggs with a homemade béchamel cream.
Go ahead and cook this powerful recipe that we shares with us, delicious baked pasta that everyone will surely want to repeat. Add the extras that you like the most and if you want, use the pasta and meat that you have left over from previous days. The macarronade is priceless and it is scrumptious!
Ingredients to make Macarronade:
- 1 kilogram of Macaroni or Short Pasta
- 1 kilogram of ground beef
- 2 ripe plantains or Plantains
- 4 boiled eggs
- 4 boiled potatoes
- 500 grams of leg ham
- 500 grams of yellow cheese
- 250 grams of Mozzarella
- 200 grams of Parmesan cheese
- 500 milliliters of milk
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 onion
- 1 pinch of Salt and Pepper
- 2 teaspoons of Cornstarch
- 2 ripe tomatoes
- 1 piece of paprika
- 1 branch of Celery
- 1 branch of chives
How to make Macaronade:
- The first step to start making this delicious Macaronade is to cook the pasta. For this recipe you can use any short pasta, feathers or screws, the one you like best. The important thing is that it stays al dente. Booking.
- With the meat we will make a Bolognese sauce. To do this, cook or fry the ground beef with minced garlic, salt and pepper until done. Separately, blend the tomatoes together with the onion, garlic, paprika, celery and chives until a sauce is achieved. Add this tomato sauce to the meat and cook until the Bolognese remains.
- To make the béchamel sauce, make a sauce of onion, garlic and coriander. Add half of the milk and when it starts to boil, lower the temperature and add the rest of the milk with the cornstarch dissolved in it. Season with a little salt and pepper to taste.
- Ready the meat and the béchamel we go to the assembly of the Macarronade. To do this, in an aluminum tray for 2 kilos, we begin to place the base paste, then a layer of meat and another of béchamel.
- Next, place a layer of sliced potatoes, sliced eggs, sliced ripe plantains, ham, cheese and so we are putting several layers until we finish the ingredients. In the last layer put the mozzarella cheese and Parmesan.
- To finish the Macarronade, take the preparation to the oven at 180ºC for about 20 minutes so that the cheese is gratin well. Serve and bon appetite!
