Steps to Make Award-winning Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese with Bacon

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butternut squash mac and cheese with bacon using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese with Bacon:

1. Make ready 3 cups macaroni noodles
2. Get 2 cups diced butternut squash
3. Make ready 1 lbs bacon, diced
4. Take 1 onion, diced
5. Get 5 cloves garlic, minced
6. Get 1.5 tsp dried thyme
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp nutmeg
8. Prepare 1 tsp paprika
9. Make ready 1/4 cup white wine
10. Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
11. Take 1/2 cup heavy cream
12. Prepare 1/2 cup chicken stock
13. Make ready 1.5 cups shredded mozzarella
14. Get 1 cups gruyere cheese

Steps to make Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese with Bacon:

1. In a large pot, cook pasta just shy of el dente
2. Meanwhile in an oven proof skillet, brown bacon.
3. Once the pasta is cooked, drain and set aside in colander. Then place the pot back on the heat, boil water and cook the diced butternut squash until soft. Drain the water from the squash, add the chicken broth and blend with hand blender. Once blended add the cream. (If you dont have a hand blender, add all this to a blender and blend until smooth and return back to the pot.
4. Going back to the skillet, once bacon is crisp, remove and set aside. Drain some of the fat from the pan. Add your onions and garlic and seasoning (except paprika) and cook until onions are translucent. This is for about 5 min. Then add your wine to deglaze. Turn off heat.
5. Going back to the pot with the butternut squash puree, once it's warmed through add 2 cups of your shredded cheese and your paprika and stir. Remove from heat. Add your onion mixture to the pot. Mix to combine.
6. Add your cooked macaroni to your cheesy sauce and mix. Stir in half of your crumbled bacon.
7. Pour everything back into your oven safe skillet (or leave it in the pot IF its oven proof) top your mac with the remaining cheese and crumbled bacon. Bake in oven at 375°F for 30-35min or until bubbly and brown.

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