Baked Mac & Cheese Cups with Broccoli
Creamy macaroni cheese with tiny broccoli pieces, baked in a muffin tin until the tops are crispy. Portion-sized, easy to pack and good warm or cold.
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Ingredients
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Steps
Cook the pasta and broccoli
Heat the oven to 190 °C (375 °F) and grease a 12-hole muffin tin with the oil or butter. Bring the water to a boil without salt, cook the macaroni for about 8 minutes, adding the broccoli for the last 3 minutes, then drain both together.
- 200 g macaroni
- 150 g broccoli
- 2 L water
- 1 tsp oil or butter
✅ Done when: pasta is tender and broccoli is bright green
Make the cheese sauce
Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat, stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Slowly whisk in the milk and keep stirring over medium heat for 3-4 minutes until the sauce thickens.
- 25 g butter
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 300 ml milk
✅ Done when: sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon
Add the cheese
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Fill the tin
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Bake
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Rest and pack
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Cook the pasta and broccoli
Heat the oven to 190 °C (375 °F) and grease a 12-hole muffin tin with the oil or butter. Bring the water to a boil without salt, cook the macaroni for about 8 minutes, adding the broccoli for the last 3 minutes, then drain both together.
- 200 g macaroni
- 150 g broccoli
- 2 L water
- 1 tsp oil or butter
✅ Done when: pasta is tender and broccoli is bright green
Make the cheese sauce
Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat, stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Slowly whisk in the milk and keep stirring over medium heat for 3-4 minutes until the sauce thickens.
- 25 g butter
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 300 ml milk
✅ Done when: sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon
Add the cheese
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Fill the tin
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Bake
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Rest and pack
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The Story Behind the Dish
Baked pasta with cheese appears in English cookbooks of the 1700s. Thomas Jefferson fell in love with macaroni in Europe and served it at the White House, and in the 1930s boxed macaroni and cheese made it a family staple in America.
Baking it in a muffin tin turns a messy bowl into neat portions with the best part, the crispy top, on every single one.
⭐ Why It's Famous
Mac and cheese is one of the most loved comfort foods for children in the English-speaking world.
💡 Fun Fact
Thomas Jefferson brought a pasta-making machine back from Italy in the 1780s.
England and the United States
38.90°N, -77.04°W
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