How to Make Perfect 3 Cheese Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, 3 cheese butternut squash mac & cheese. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 3 cheese butternut squash mac & cheese using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make 3 Cheese Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese:

1. Get medium butternut squash, peeled and cubed (about 3 cups)
2. Take olive oil
3. Make ready dry macaroni or other pasta of choice (I used Italian Cavatappi or "corkscrew pasta")
4. Prepare For the Sauce
5. Get butter
6. Take all purpose flour
7. Prepare milk
8. Prepare dijon mustard
9. Take salt
10. Get white pepper
11. Take cayenne pepper (optional for a kick!)
12. Prepare garlic powder
13. Prepare freshly grated nutmeg (or ground nutmeg is fine)
14. Make ready fresh thyme leaves(or dried is fine)
15. Prepare Monterey Jack cheese, grated
16. Prepare Smoked Gouda, grated
17. Take Gruyere cheese, grated
18. Prepare panko breadcrumbs

Steps to make 3 Cheese Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese:

1. Preheat oven to 400 °.
2. Toss squash with olive oil and transfer to a baking sheet. Bake for about 30 minutes, turning halfway through until squash is tender.
3. Cook pasta according to the package instructions. Usually about 5-7 minutes until al dente depending on the pasta you choose. Drain pasta and set aside.
4. In a large pot over medium high heat, melt butter. Whisk in the flour. Your flour mixture at this point will be thick, lumpy and dry.
5. Slowly whisk in the milk a little at a time. Add the dijon mustard and spices. Constantly stir until the flour mixture comes to a boil about 5-7 minutes and thickens.
6. Add in cheeses, squash and pasta. Stir just enough to coat and cheese is slightly melted.
7. Pour your mac & cheese into an oven proof baking dish. Top with panko breadcrumbs and bake for 20 minutes. If you want, you can just put the mac & cheese under the broiler too for about 2-3 minutes to toast the panko breadcrumbs on top and be done with it. I like to bake mine a little longer until all the cheeses are very melty through the whole dish.

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