Change up your mac and cheese with my Mexican flavor inspired recipe. Try wagon wheels or other fun pasta shapes for the kids.
Tex Mex Mac and Cheese
Servings
6 Servings
Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 1 1-pound box pasta shells
- 2 cups cheddar cheese shredded
- 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 16-ounce can diced tomatoes, undrained
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 cup grated Parmesan
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375° F.
- Spray a 7 x 10-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- Cook pasta according to package instructions. In a large bowl, toss pasta with cheeses, salt, pepper, and tomatoes. Spoon into prepared dish. Pour the cream over the pasta mixture. Adjust seasoning, if necessary. Top with Parmesan.
- Bake for 25 minutes and serve directly from the baking dish with Lemon Butter Broccoli on the side.
- Lemon Broccoli Butter
- Prepare a 2 pound bag frozen broccoli florets according to package directions. When it is crisp-tender, transfer to a bowl and toss with 3 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon salt and 1 1/2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon.
- Recipe Courtesy of Quick & Kosher: Meals in Minutes by Jamie Geller (Feldheim 2010)
The cheeses available may be different but you can make it this recipe work with what you can find. I am not sure if Monterey Jack is available in Israel so you can use more cheddar instead or Gouda which is easy to find here.
Please supply all of us that wish to make this very tasty recipe, a store location where Monterey Jack cheese is available in Israel. Realize, that Israel prefers Chalav Yisrael products but you can find Kosher Chalav Stam (regular milk) items in Tel Aviv. Many thanks Was told that these are the best substitutes for KOSHER Monterery Jack: SPECIFICALLY KOSHER 1 – Parmesan. 2 – Edam. 3 – Gouda. 4 – Comté 5 – Havarti.
Another good one! I found it in Meals in Minutes. Had to sub different cheeses and pasta shape, and I added shishito peppers, garlic, and bread crumbs. Delicious! We had steamed broccoli on the side. Much better than the boxed stuff!!