Marmite mac and cheese recipe
The ultimate comfort food: a dash of Marmite stirred through indulgent mac and cheese. Best of all, you can make this recipe in a mug.
Recipe from Cooking on a Bootstrap by Jack Monroe, available to buy now (Bluebird, £15.99).
Ingredients
- 75 g macaroni or other short pasta
- 2 tsp butter
- 0.5 tsp Marmite or other yeast extract
- 20 g hard strong cheese
Details
- Cuisine: British
- Recipe Type: Pasta
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 5 mins
- Cooking Time: 5 mins
- Serves: 1
Step-by-step
- Tip the pasta into a mug and cover with 250ml (8.5floz) cold water.
- Cover the mug with cling film and pierce it several times, or balance a small saucer on top – make sure neither mug nor saucer have any metal on.
- Stand the mug in a bowl or jug. Cook on full power for 2 minutes, then remove the mug. It’s usual for water to bubble up over the sides and drench the bottom of your microwave, so to save cleaning it up and topping it up again, just tip the water back into the mug.
- Give it all a good stir and leave to stand for a minute. Repeat this step twice more, until your pasta is soft and swollen. You may need to add a splash more water here or there, which is fine – not all microwaves, nor pasta, are created equal.
- Add the butter, stir in the Marmite and grate over the cheese. Cook for 1 more minute on full power, stir well and serve.
This recipe is from Cooking on a Bootstrap by Jack Monroe, available to buy now (Bluebird, £15.99). Photography by Mike English.
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