bacon, white truffle, mac and cheese
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Simple lifestyles recipe and Simply Eats have inspired this easy recipe. The earthy flavor of the white truffle oil gives this mac and cheese with bacon an extra snap of flavor for your early brunch or dinner.
(1 rating)
yield
serving(s)
prep time
30 Min
cook time
10 Min
Ingredients For bacon, white truffle, mac and cheese
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1 3/4 cmilk
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2 Tbspdehydrated onion bits
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1 mdbay leaf
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12 ozpasta, uncooked
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2 Tbspall purpose flour
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1/2 cmilk
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1 tspsalt
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3/4 cshredded fontina cheese
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1/2 cshredded gruyère cheese
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1/3 creal bacon bits or 6 strips precooked bacon,chopped
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3 tspwhite truffle oil (trader joe's)or (whole foods)
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3 or 4 slicefrench bread, torn into pieces - it doesn't have to be fresh
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2 Tbspgrated fresh parmesan cheese
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2 clovegarlic,crushed
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1 Tbspolive oil
How To Make bacon, white truffle, mac and cheese
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1Heat milk, onion and bay leaf in a large skillet until bubbles form around edges -do not boil. Cover and remove from heat; let set for 15 minutes. Cook pasta to al dente in boiling water; drain.
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2Remove bay leaf from milk mixture. In a small bowl add remaining milk and flour, stirring with a whisk until well blended. Gradually stir flour mixture and salt into the warm milk and onion mixture. Stir constantly, cooking for one minute. Remove from heat, let set 8 minutes.
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3Gradually add the fontina and Gruyère cheese, stirring until melted. Stir in pasta,bacon and truffle oil. Spoon mixture into a 2 quart,sprayed casserole baking dish. Preheat broiler .
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4Place the bread pieces, Parmesan cheese and garlic in a food processor and process until coarse crumbs form. Drizzle with olive oil; pulse until fine crumbs form. Sprinkle breadcrumb mixture over pasta. Broil 2 minutes or until golden brown.
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