Jalapeño-Popper Chorizo Mac-n-Cheese
with Corn and Bocconcini
Love jalapeño poppers? We do to, and with this popular appy inspired dinner, you can indulge all you like!
Ingredients: Chorizo sausage (pork, water, sugars (dextrose), spices, salt, paprika, potassium chloride, potassium phosphate, flavour, dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic, sodium erythorbate, sodium diacetate, paprika extractives, spice extractives, bakon Hfbn) • Rigatoni pasta (durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulphate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) (wheat) • 35% Cream (cream, milk, dextrose, cellulose gel, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate) (milk) • Thaw-friendly corn (corn, modified vinegar) • Bocconcini cheese (pasteurized milk, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, bacterial culture) (milk) • Spinach • Cream cheese (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, lactic acid, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Panko breadcrumbs (bleached wheat flour, yeast, sugar, salt) (wheat) • Jalapeno pepper • Cream sauce spice blend (wheat flour, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, canola oil, silicon dioxide) (wheat) • Dijon mustard (water, mustard seed, mustard flour, vinegar, salt, white wine, spices, xanthan gum, citric acid, tartaric acid) (mustard) • Garlic salt (salt, garlic powder, silicon dioxide).
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
170 g
Rigatoni
(Contains Wheat)
1 unit(s)
Jalapeño
113 mL
Cream
(Contains Milk)
100 g
Bocconcini Cheese
(Contains Milk)
113 g
Corn Kernels
1 tbsp
Cream Sauce Spice Blend
(Contains Wheat May contain Peanuts, Triticale, Tree nuts, Sesame, Soy, Wheat, Milk, Sulphites, Mustard)
2 unit(s)
Cream Cheese
(Contains Milk)
½ tbsp
Dijon Mustard
(Contains Mustard May contain Fish, Milk, Soy, Wheat, Tree nuts, Egg, Sulphites, Mustard, Crustaceans, Sesame, Gluten)
56 g
Baby Spinach
1 tsp
Garlic Salt
(May contain Milk, Sulphites, Wheat, Tree nuts, Triticale, Mustard, Soy, Sesame, Peanuts)
⅓ cup
Panko Breadcrumbs
(Contains Wheat May contain Wheat, Gluten)
250 g
Chorizo Sausage, uncased
Not included in your delivery
2 tbsp
Unsalted Butter*
(Contains Milk)
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Add rigatoni to the boiling water. Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until tender, 10-12 min.
- Reserve 2/3 cup (1 1/3 cups) pasta water, then drain and return rigatoni to the same pot, off heat.
- Quarter bocconcini.
- Roughly chop spinach.
- Core, then finely chop jalapeño, removing half the seeds for less heat if desired. (TIP: We suggest using gloves when prepping jalapeños!)
- Heat a large oven-proof pan over medium heat.
- When hot, add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) butter, then swirl to melt.
- Add panko. Toast, stirring constantly, until lightly golden, 1-2 min.
- Season with 1/8 tsp (1/4 tsp) garlic salt and pepper.
- Transfer to a small bowl.
- Add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) butter, then swirl to melt.
- Add add chorizo, jalapeños and corn to the pan. Cook, breaking up chorizo and stirring often until vegies have softened, and chorizo is cooked through, 4-6 min.**
- Season with 1/2 tsp (1 tsp) garlic salt and pepper.
- Sprinkle Cream Sauce Blend over veggies. Cook, stirring often, until mixture coats chorizo and veggies, 30 sec.
- Add cream, cream cheese and reserved pasta water. Cook, stirring often, until sauce thickens slightly, 3-4 min.
- Add spinach. Cook, stirring often, until spinach wilts, 1-2 min.
- Top with bocconcini quarters, then sprinkle over panko.
- Broil in the centre of the oven, until cheese melts and topping is golden-brown, 3-4 min.
- Once the topping has melted and is golden-brown, let mac-n-cheese cool for 3-4 min.
- Divide mac-n-cheese between plates.
If you've opted to add chorizo, when the pan is hot, add chorizo along with jalapenos and corn. Cook, breaking up chorizo and stirring often until veggies have softened and chorizo is cooked through, 4-6 min**. Follow the rest of the recipe as written.