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Coquillettes au Jambon - French Macaroni and Cheese with Ham

Time
25 min
Makes
5
Ingredients
11

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Ingredients

Servings
5 servings
Amounts
  • 500g / 1 lb elbow pasta / macaroni (, but any similar size pasta would work )
  • 1 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt (, for pasta water, half for table salt)
  • 200g / 7 oz ham slices ((I use ham off-the-bone), diced 1cm / 0.4" (Note 1))
  • 75g / 5tbsp tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup plain flour / all-purpose flour
  • 3 cups milk (, HOT, full fat preferred, but work with lite milk too)
  • 1 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt (, halve for table salt, +50% for flakes)
  • 3/4 tsp black pepper
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg (, (Note 2))
  • 1 1/2 cups Gruyère cheese, grated (, shredded using a standard box grater (tightly packed if using cups) (Note 3))
  • 1/2 cup pasta cooking water
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Nutrition · per serving

Calories
811 kcal
Fat
33 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
10 g
Sodium
1071 mg
Protein
36 g
Trans fat
1 g
Cholesterol
96 mg
Carbohydrate
92 g
Saturated fat
18 g
Unsaturated fat
11 g

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