Healthy homemade mac and cheese

Hey guys :)

This is another post that is a little different to my usual posts, if you have read some of my previous posts you'll know I'm trying to lose a bit of weight at the moment, and I thought that I would share some of the recipes that I am really loving though out it all.

Now one of my all time favorite foods, is macaroni cheese, I love the stuff, but it's not really the healthiest meal out there, or so I thought until I found the Rosemary Conley homemade mac and cheese with sun dried tomatoes, it is just 330 calories and 4.4% fat per serving and so easy to make. This recipe makes 4 servings.

What you will need :

200g macaroni pasta

1 and half vegetable stock cubes

500ml semi skimmed milk

4tsp arrow root

40g sun dried tomatoes

30g grated low fat cheese

Salt and pepper

The first thing I always do is  prep, so I grated my cheese and sliced the sun dried tomatoes ( you can leave them whole if you like)

 Next step is to boil the pasta with one vegetable stock cube, this helps to give the pasta more flavor then boiling it in just water.

When fully cooked, drain the pasta and place it into an oven proof dish.

Pour a small amount of your semi skimmed milk into a mug, and the 4 tsp of arrow root and mix well

 Add the rest of the milk into a pan and heat until almost boiling.

Add the arrow root mixture into the hot milk and keep stirring, the sauce will begin to thicken.

Then add in the half of a stock cube, and mix really well until smooth and the stock cube is dissolved.

Now add in the the sun dried tomatoes.

And finally add the cheese, then mix until all the cheese in melted and sauce is smooth, season well with salt and pepper.

 Pour the sauce over the pasta in the oven proof dish, I gave it a little stir just to make sure all the pasta was coated with the sauce, and that is was all evenly distributed.

Put the dish in a pre heated oven at 200 degrees and bake for around 20 mins, you can choose to take it out at around 15 mins and add a little extra cheese on top if you wish ( this will up the calories however, so i like to save some cheese from the 30g in the recipe to do this).

And your home made mac and cheese is done, serve straight away while still hot, with a sprinkling of fresh parsley on top and a small side salad. 

What I like to do is split this into four portions and place in plastic tubs and freeze, then when ever I don't feel like cooking or I have a late finish from uni I can just warm this up in about 5 or 10 mins and it's ready to eat.

Hope you enjoyed this, if you want to see more posts like this, and you have any request for some healthy alternatives, let me know in the comments below and I will do my best.

Becki x