Baked Mac Bechamel Mix

I was planning and craving for Macaroni Cheese snacks but turned out to have this Baked Mac using Bechamel mix instead. Some Mac&Cheese ingredients are not available in the kitchen so I decided to prepare something like this instead. Béchamel is a mixture of flour, butter, and milk among others which is normally combined with pasta and serves as a base pasta sauce. A not-so-big difference with the taste between my cravings for Mac&Cheese and this one, still fine anyway :)

 Baked Macaroni Bechamel

Ingredients

- 200gms macaroni

- 100gms salted margarine

- 160ml evaporated milk

- 10 slices puck cheddar cheese

- 1 ½ cups of water

- pinch of salt and pepper

Procedure

 

Cooking the macaroni and sauce

- boil macaroni until semi-cooked

- remove from heat, rinse with water, and drain well

- meanwhile, preheat oven for 5mins

- on a separate cooking pan, heat 1 ½ cups of water

- before the water boils, add the butter and let boil

- gradually add béchamel powder, mix well

- add the evaporated milk

- cook until mixture becomes thick

- remove from heat and set aside

Combining them together 

- combine semi-cooked macaroni with the béchamel mixture

- grease a baking pan with butter

- place 4 pcs of puck cheddar cheese at the bottom of the pan

- layer with macaroni béchamel mixture

- place again some cheddar cheese on top and add the next macaroni layer

- bake on 200^o C initially for 5minutes

- top with cheddar cheese stripes

- bake again for another 5minutes of until cheese stripes become semi brown

- remove from oven and enjoy