Almost Guilt Free Mac And Cheese

• 1/2 pound pasta Cellantani, elbow macaroni or small shells pasta
• 1 head cauliflower chopped and roasted
• 1 pound chicken breast sauteed and diced
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 5 tablespoons butter divided
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 tablespoon prepared mustard Coleman's, could also use Dijon mustard
• 3 cups soy milk
• 1 yellow onion medium, finely diced
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 lemon juiced
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/8 teaspoon peppers Szechuan, ground - can use more to taste*
• 2 eggs
• 5 ounces goat cheese
• 5 ounces shredded Parmesan cheese
• 6 ounces Emmental cheese Shredded, or Swiss cheese
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs or other bread crumbs
• kosher salt
• fresh ground black pepper

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Farenheit.
2. Clean core and leaves from cauliflower (you do not have to have any precision when doing this). Chop cauliflower into pieces. Pieces should be roughly 1/2" - 3/4".
3. Place chopped cauliflower pieces onto a baking sheet. Drizzle olive oil over top of cauliflower and mix to thoroughly coat pieces.
4. After 20 minutes, toss cauliflower pieces to brown all sides. Bake for another 20 minutes or until edges are browned.
5. Remove from oven and lower temperature to 350 degrees Farenheit.
6. For Macaroni and Cheese
7. In a large pot of boiling and salted water, cook pasta until it is al dente. Once done, drain.
8. In another large saucepan, over medium high heat, melt 3 tablespoons of butter. Once melted, whisk in flour. Keep whisking to ensure that there are no lumps. After 5-7 minutes, the butter and flour mixture should be a light caramel color.
9. Add the soy milk, bay leaves, paprika, lemon juice, thyme, garlic powder and Szechuan pepper. Stir occasionally for 10 - 15 minutes. The mixture should thicken up. Remove bay leaves.
10. In a medium size bowl thoroughly mix eggs. Using a 1/4 cup measuring cup, slowly add milk mixture to eggs (temper the eggs). While adding the hot mixture to the eggs, make sure that you keep whisking. Once you have roughly 2 cups of the soy milk mixture in with the eggs, dump everything into the main saucepan and stir. Add in 3/4 of the shredded cheeses, and all of the goat cheese, and stir to combine.
11. Add in the cooked, diced chicken and roasted cauliflower. Once these are combined, add the cooked pasta and stir thoroughly.
12. Season with salt and pepper.
13. Pour into a 9"x13" baking pan.
14. Cover with remaining cheese.
15. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a saute pan. Add panko bread crumbs and stir to coat all of the crumbs with butter.
16. Top the mac and cheese with the panko crumbs and bake for 30 minutes.

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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Almost-Guilt-Free-Mac-and-Cheese-1644296 (may not work)