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🍽️ Green Mac and Cheese Gratins

183 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Boil water in a large pot and add salt.
  2. 2. Cook the macaroni al dente, exactly according to the package instructions.
  3. 3. Drain the pasta and let it drain well.
  4. 4. Put the spinach in a pot and thaw it slowly over low heat for 5 to 10 minutes.
  5. 5. Pour the milk over the thawed spinach and warm the mixture.
  6. 6. Puree the spinach-milk mixture finely with a hand blender.
  7. 7. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a clean pot.
  8. 8. Stir the flour into the butter and cook it lightly over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
  9. 9. Pour the spinach-milk mixture into the butter-flour mixture.
  10. 10. Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes and stir occasionally.
  11. 11. Grate the cheese finely in the meantime.
  12. 12. Stir half of the grated cheese into the sauce.
  13. 13. Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper.
  14. 14. Remove the pot from the heat and let the sauce cool for 5 minutes.
  15. 15. Grease a muffin tin well with the remaining butter.
  16. 16. Chop the walnuts coarsely.
  17. 17. Add the drained pasta and the egg to the cheese sauce.
  18. 18. Mix everything well until the pasta is evenly coated.
  19. 19. Distribute the pasta mixture evenly into the cups of the muffin tin.
  20. 20. Sprinkle the remaining grated cheese and chopped walnuts on top.
  21. 21. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius conventional heat (or 160 degrees Celsius fan-forced or gas level 2 to 3).
  22. 22. Bake the gratins for about 25 minutes in the preheated oven.
  23. 23. Remove the tin from the oven and let the gratins cool for 5 minutes.
  24. 24. Carefully release the gratins from the tin.
  25. 25. Serve the small gratins warm.

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