Chicken White Chili Mac & Cheese
Ok, I found the original recipe on the internet, and it was horrendous at best! And a totally misleading name. This is my rewrite, when I make this, I will update the recipe and make my report when I make this, it does sound good. This takes some time as noted in the first step.
Ingredients
For the Chicken
- 1 whole chicken, remove the head and feet and remove the giblets
- 1 onion, leave skin on and just cut in half
- 10 cloves garlic, just smash and leave skins on
For the Pasta
- 500 grams spaghetti
- 250 grams Cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1 cup chicken stock, you just made that, strain out the onion and garlic
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 2 cans whole peeled tomatoes, diced and juice reserved (can use fresh but you need tomato juice)
- 1-2 green chilies, diced
- 1 cup fresh mushrooms, King Osyter or Shiitaki would be perfect
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
For the Chicken
- Place whole chicken in large pot, add the onion, garlic and cover with water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 40 to 60 minutes, until tender. Remove from heat and let the chicken and stock cool to room temperature. Remove chicken from pot, reserving stock, discard the onion and garlic. Skin and bone chicken, set the skin and bones aside for your dog. Lightly shred the meat with forks or roughly chop. Set meat aside.
For the Pasta
- In a slow cooker, add the onion, chilies, garlic, bell pepper, mushrooms, chili powder, salt and pepper to taste, to your slow cooker. Then add chicken, diced tomatoes AND juice, cheese, and chicken stock. Cover and cook on Low setting for 3 hours.
- Before the 3 hours is up, cook your pasta in the chicken stock if you like or just water, then stir in cooked pasta before serving.
Notes
One whole chicken will run between 200 and 250 Baht. The cheese is one block for 180 Baht. This comes out to about $1.60 per serving for 8 servings. Not bad but high for what I would call a regular meal. The good thing is you have chicken stock for your next recipe.
Heavily modified from a internet recipe.
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