🦐🧀 Seafood Mac and Cheese (Creamy & Cheesy)
🍝 Ingredients:
Pasta
- Macaroni – 2 cups (boiled, al dente)
Seafood
- Shrimp (prawns) – 200 g (cleaned)
- Crab meat OR lobster – ½ cup
(optional but highly recommended) - Salt & black pepper – to taste
- Paprika or chili flakes – ½ tsp
- Lemon juice – 1 tsp
- Butter – 1 tbsp
Cheese Sauce
- Butter – 3 tbsp
- All-purpose flour – 3 tbsp
- Milk – 2 cups (warm)
- Fresh cream – ½ cup
- Garlic – 2 cloves (minced)
- Cheddar cheese – 1½ cups (grated)
- Mozzarella or Gruyère – 1 cup
- Salt – to taste
- Black pepper – ½ tsp
- Mustard powder – ½ tsp (optional, but 🔥)
Topping (optional)
- Bread crumbs – ½ cup
- Parmesan cheese – ¼ cup
- Butter – 1 tbsp (melted)
👩🍳 Method:
1️⃣ Cook the seafood
- Pan mein butter melt karein
- Shrimp add karein, salt, pepper, paprika & lemon juice daal kar
- 2–3 minutes cook karein (overcook mat karna)
- Crab/lobster ho to last mein gently fold karein
- Side mein rakh dein
2️⃣ Make the cheese sauce
- Saucepan mein butter melt karein
- Garlic add kar ke 30 seconds cook
- Flour add kar ke 1 minute stir (roux)
- Milk thora thora add karte hue whisk karein
- Cream add karein
- Thick hone par cheese add karein
- Salt, pepper & mustard powder mix karein
➡️ Smooth aur creamy ho jana chahiye
3️⃣ Combine
- Sauce mein boiled macaroni add karein
- Seafood gently fold karein
- Taste check karein
4️⃣ Bake (optional but best)
- Oven dish mein mac & cheese daalein
- Breadcrumbs + parmesan + butter mix kar ke upar daal dein
- 180°C par 15–20 minutes bake
- Upar se golden & bubbly ho jaye 😍
(Bina bake bhi serve kar sakte ho)
✨ Tips:
- Extra kick ke liye Old Bay seasoning ya Cajun spice add kar do
- Creamier chahiye ho to thora pasta water sauce mein daal sakte ho
- Fish chunks (like salmon) bhi add ho sakte hain
Agar chaho to:
- Spicy Cajun seafood mac
- Air fryer baked version
- Budget version (sirf prawns)
bhi bana doon 😏🍽️
