Be sure to leave a comment or tag me on Instagram with your creations! Okay, that’s it. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Any Type of Yogurt (you could try dairy free + nutritional yeast for vegan Easy Mac).Fat Free or Reduced Fat Cream Cheese, softened.Worcestershire or other umami-boosting sauces.Italian Bomba Pepper Sauce (Trader Joe’s) or roasted pepper spreads.I’ll get you started with a handful of ideas, but you’ll quickly see just about anything will work as add-ins with the cheddar powder. You can get as creative as you’d like here. Okay, let’s talk substitutes for the yogurt and/or hot sauce. Otherwise, you’ll have to stir like crazy to get rid of cheese chunks. You could also use other cheese sauces like the queso in my chipotle beef queso mac and cheese or make your own on the stove like in my cajun mac and cheese.Īs for the Greek yogurt and hot sauce, I’ve found it’s much easier to get even cheese distribution when you mix the cheddar powder with a bit of liquid rather than going straight into something like pasta. In case you don’t have cheddar powder on hand, grated parmesan works great with something like the Italian Bomba Pepper sauce I used with my air fried cauliflower gnocchi. I’ve included it on my recommended ingredients Amazon list and linked it in the recipe card below. Like I mentioned in my recent buffalo chicken mac and cheese recipe, it’s easier to order cheddar powder online than track it down in stores. You can reconstitute it in liquids like Greek yogurt for a much lower fat creamy sauce than melted cheese on its own. I always use the comparison of powdered peanut butter. If you’re unfamiliar with cheddar powder, it’s basically dehydrated cheddar cheese. You’ll need 3 things for the cheese sauce: I’ve not tested doubling the recipe, but I’m guessing you’ll need a really, really big bowl to avoid overflow.Even with a small amount, regular sized bowls and mugs didn’t do the trick for me in testing. Chickpea pasta creates lots of foam as it cooks. You’ll need a big bowl to prevent overflow.That’s about 2/3 cup dry pasta in case you don’t have a food scale. The recipe calls for 2 ounces of dry pasta.Now that we’ve established that, here are a few important notes for cooking chickpea pasta in the microwave: At least not with an impasta like Banza’s chickpea pasta, which is what this copycat Easy Mac recipe calls for. Microwaving pasta may seem blasphemous to some, but those folks probably aren’t using this recipe anyway! I’m currently in the midst of finishing a pasta cookbook and have cooked pasta every which-a-way for the past month.Īnd in my opinion, there’s no noticeable difference between microwaved pasta and stovetop boiled pasta. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualified sales.

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