Macaroni and minced meat casserole with cheese

Delicious and quick to prepare pasta and minced meat dish! Pasta with minced meat, at first glance, seems so banal. But, in fact, from these products you can cook a delicious dish of Italian cuisine – a fragrant, crispy casserole. Such a dish can be served even on a festive table.

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Macaroni and minced meat casserole with cheese

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pasta

400

Minced meat

400

Carrots

Onion

Vegetable oil

Salt

to taste

Ground black pepper

to taste

Hard cheese

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 19 % 10 g

Fats 30 % 16 g

Carbohydrates 51 % 27 g

293 kcal

GI: 7 / 93 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 45 min

Step 1:
How to make a casserole of pasta and minced meat with cheese? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Pasta can be used any to taste and availability, preferably from durum wheat. Pour water into a saucepan, put it on fire. Add a little salt. When the water boils, pour the pasta into the pan, immediately mix them with a spoon so that they do not stick to the bottom of the pan. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 8 minutes.
Step 2:
Minced meat for casserole can also be used any to taste. With minced chicken, the casserole will turn out to be less caloric, and with mixed pork and beef, it will turn out fatter and tastier. Use the minced meat ready-made or make it yourself in a meat grinder from fresh meat.
Step 3:
Peel the onion and finely chop it with a knife.
Step 4:
Wash, peel and grate the carrots on a medium grater.
Step 5:
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan with a thick bottom. Warm it up. Put the cooked carrots and onions on the butter. Fry the vegetables over medium heat until lightly browned, stirring occasionally with a spatula.
Step 6:
Send the minced meat to the frying pan for vegetable frying, immediately mix it with the vegetables so that it does not grab large lumps. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste. Stir and fry for about 10 minutes over medium heat.
Step 7:
Grease the baking dish with butter. Put some of the pasta in the mold.
Step 8:
Put the minced meat with vegetables on top.
Step 9:
Cover the fried vegetables with minced meat with the remains of pasta. Sprinkle on top with grated hard cheese on a fine grater. Choose the type of cheese to taste, the main thing is that it has a not very pronounced specific taste, so as not to drown out the taste of other ingredients of the dish.
Step 10:
Put the casserole in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 20 minutes. All the ingredients – the basis of the casserole – are ready, so it does not need to be kept in the oven for a long time, so as not to over-dry. The macaroni casserole with minced meat and cheese is ready. Let the dish cool down a little and serve it to the table with fresh vegetables, herbs or a salad of fresh vegetables. Bon appetit!

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