Your Tuesday night dinner sorted: MasterChef star Dani Venn shares the secret recipe for her macaroni cheese – with a VERY unexpected ingredient
- MasterChef’s Dani Venn has revealed how to make pumpkin macaroni cheese
- The delicious looking recipe takes just 40 minutes to make from scratch
- The mum says she likes it because there is half a kilogram of hidden vegetables
MasterChef’s Dani Venn has revealed how to make the macaroni cheese with a healthy and delicious twist – adding pumpkin to the popular dish.
The 34-year-old mother of two posted the video tutorial on Instagram and said it is super easy and fast to make, drawing parallels to the viral TikTok pasta.
‘I like it because it has half a kilo of hidden vegetables,’ the mum said.
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MasterChef’s Dani Venn has revealed how to make the macaroni cheese with a healthy and delicious twist – adding pumpkin to the popular dish
The 34-year-old mother of two posted the video tutorial on Instagram and said it is super easy and fast to make, drawing parallels to the viral TikTok pasta
The video starts with the celebrity chef slapping 250grams of smooth ricotta into a baking dish with 500grams of diced pumpkin.
She then drizzles olive oil over the top and adds a sprinkle of paprika and salt before popping it into the oven for 30 minutes.
When the roasted pumpkin came out she mashed it all up, added half a cup of milk, cheese and pasta.
She then topped it with more cheese and baked until golden.
Her two kids gave a double thumbs up each to the easy dinner.
‘It feeds a family with leftovers, winning at life,’ she said on her post.
When the roasted pumpkin came out she mashed it all up, added half a cup of milk, cheese and pasta
The mum loves to cook for her family and posts recipes and pictures online frequently – like this one of pastries at Easter
She added pasta and cheese to the pumpkin mixture and mixed before adding cheese on the top
And people were just as excited over the recipe as Dani.
‘I would actually eat this mac and cheese,’ one woman said before adding her children might eat it too.
‘I bet this taste so good and is cheap,’ another mum said.
‘I need this in my life,’ another woman said.
Dani said the pasta used doesn’t really matter, and can even be switched to a gluten free variety.
The pasta bake came out of the oven once the cheese on top was golden brown
She suggests adding bacon to ‘amp it up’ and using a minimum of three different cheeses.
‘You can use whatever cheese you like but I recommend a minimum of three cheeses because you can,’ she said.
Think something melty like cheddar or mozzarella and something sharp like Parmesan too,’ she added.