Baked Mac and Cheese
By: cindy
Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 5:47am

Ingredients




1/2 pound elbow macaroni
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon dry mustard
3 cups milk
1/2 cup yellow onion diced small
bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon paprika
l lg. egg
12 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese
l tsp. kosher salt
fresh black pepper
Topping
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup panko bread crumbs

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 350 2 Pot of boiling salted water add pasta follow directions 3 In a large pot, melt butter add flour and whisk for about 5 min. or so make sure you have not lumps.Stir in milk, bay leaf, onions, paprika  and keep whisking 4 Simmer for about 10 minutes or so. 5 Remove bay leaf 6 Temper in the egg. 7 Stir in about 3/4 of cheese. 8 Season with salt and pepper 9 Spray a large baking dish with Pam 10 Fold in the Macaroni 11 Pour into baking dish 12 Sprinkle rest of cheese over this 13 Make topping 14 Saute butter with panko crumbs 15 Spread on top 16 Bake 30 min or so until nice and brown

Comments:
cindy

You can substitute a mixture of cheeses.
You can use some half and half in place of some of the milk.  I like to play around and make it unique