Your Friday evening movie snack: Home cook shares her mouthwatering hot Cheetos deep-fried mac and cheese balls
- A home cook has offered recipe for hot Cheetos deep-fried mac and cheese balls
- Audrey, from Perth, revealed how she made the spicy cheesy bites in a video
- You'll need cheese, macaroni, butter, flour, milk and garlic and onion powders
A home cook has offered her simple recipe for the ultimate mac and cheese bites covered in spicy Cheetos crumbs.
Audrey, from Perth, shared a video showing how she made the deep fried mac and cheese balls using a 'special' ingredient - Flamin' Hot Cheetos Puffs.
To make the comfort snack, she used cheddar, mozzarella, parmesan, macaroni, butter, all-purpose flour, milk and garlic, onion and mustard powders.
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A home cook has offered her simple recipe for the ultimate deep fried mac and cheese bites covered in spicy Cheetos crumbs
Hot Cheetos deep-fried mac and cheese balls recipe
INGREDIENTS
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
1 cup milk (or non-dairy alternative)
1.5 cups assorted shredded cheese (I used cheddar, mozzarella, parmesan)
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp mustard powder
Salt & pepper
1 cup macaroni
For coating
Flamin' Hot Cheetos Puffs or Crunchy
1 egg
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
Vegetable oil (for frying)
Chives (for garnishing, optional)
METHOD
In a pot over the stove, add butter and flour and mix until it forms a paste - this is called a roux. Then, add your milk and stir gently until thickened.
Add garlic powder, onion powder, and mustard powder (and salt & pepper to taste if you want). Add shredded cheese.
Using KitchenAid Cordless Hand Mixer, mix over stove on lowest setting until cheese sauce is smooth and silky. (Cordless function allows you the flexibility to use the mixer anywhere in the kitchen.
Combine cheese sauce and cooked macaroni, then allow to cool and harden in the fridge for several hours.
Gently blitz Cheetos into coarse crumbs.
Scoop mac & cheese into balls (around golf ball sized), then coat in flour, egg, and then hot Cheetos.
Fry until crispy.
Garnish with chives (optional) and serve hot.
Source: @audreysaurus
Audrey - who created the recipe to celebrate National Mac & Cheese Day - started by making mac and cheese from scratch.
In a pot, she mixed butter and flour to create a roux, then she added milk and stirred until the creamy sauce thickens.
Next she added the garlic, onion and mustard powders, along with the cheeses.
Using a KitchenAid Cordless Hand Mixer, Audrey blended the cheese over low heat until she created a silky, smooth sauce.
'It's a great hack using an electric mixer to get the silkiest, smoothest cheese sauce possible for an epic mac and cheese,' she explained.
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Audrey (pictured), from Perth, shared a video showing how she made the deep fried mac and cheese balls using a 'special' ingredient - Flamin' Hot Cheetos Puffs
In a pot, she mixed butter and flour to create a roux, then she added milk and stirred until the creamy sauce thickens. Next she added the garlic, onion and mustard powders, along with the cheeses. She then combined the cheese sauce and cooked macaroni. Next she placed the mixture in the fridge for several hours to hardened
Audrey then scooped the mac and cheese, and rolled them into the size of a golf ball, then coated it in flour, followed by egg, then Cheetos
She then combined the cheese sauce and cooked macaroni. Next she placed the mixture in the fridge for several hours to hardened.
Next, she used the hand mixer to blitz the Cheetos into coarse crumbs.
In three separate bowls, she prepared the flour, egg and Cheetos crumbs for coating.
Audrey then scooped the mac and cheese, and rolled them into the size of a golf ball, then coated it in flour, followed by egg, then Cheetos.
She fried them in hot oil until they were crispy.
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