Bechamel Pasta Bake (Macarona Bechamel)

Name: Bechamel Pasta Bake (Macarona Bechamel)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: middle_eastern
Ingredients: 600 grams Penne pasta; Water; Salt; 700 grams lean ground beef; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 1 onion; 2 cups tomato sauce; 1 1/2 teaspoons allspice; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon black pepper; 1 cup flour; 1 cup butter; 1 litre milk; 1 chicken stock cube dissolved in 1 cup hot water (or 1 cup chicken stock); 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg (optional); 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

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A comforting baked pasta with ground beef, tomato sauce, and a creamy Béchamel topping. Rich, warming, and deeply satisfying.

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Ingredients

6 SERVINGS

600 gPenne pasta
Water
Salt
700 glean ground beef
1 tspsalt
1 tbspvegetable oil
1onion
2 cupstomato sauce
1½ tspallspice
1 tspcinnamon
½ tspblack pepper
1 cupflour
1 cupbutter
1 lmilk
1chicken stock cube — dissolved, or hot water or chicken stock
¼ tspground nutmeg — optional
½ tspsalt
¼ tspblack pepper

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Method

1h 30m total

Read the method on Hungry PaprikasAmina Al-Saigh’s original page

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Vitamins & minerals

Potassium: 1186mg
Calcium: 287mg
Iron: 8mg

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