Apple Butter Mac & Cheese with Sweet Chicken Sausage
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Okay, I know what you may be thinking. What…macaroni and cheese with apple butter! How bizarre of a flavor combination can you get? And I would answer back, I know..I know but try it. My apple butter macaroni and cheese with sweet apple chicken sausage is quite tasty. It is worth making for something utterly unique and flavorful.
But don’t worry, the apple butter is not extremely overpowering that you can’t taste the melted cheese mixture. The apple butter complements the cheddar cheese amazingly in this dish. This also includes the addition of the sweet apple chicken sausage. I love to use Al Fresco Sweet Apple Chicken Sausage for this dish. It has a perfect flavor that goes fantastic.
Our cost for this recipe.
Unfortunately, the bulk of the cost in my macaroni and cheese with sweet chicken sausage comes from the sausage and the cheddar cheese. At this homestead, we don’t make either of these ingredients, so I need to purchase them from the store. There isn’t much I can make at home to reduce the cost of this recipe. I have come up with the cost of this particular recipe at about $15.11 for four servings or roughly $3.78 per serving. You can see the pricing breakdown in the recipe below.
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Apple Butter Mac & Cheese with Sweet Chicken Sausage
Ingredients
- 1 lb. elbow pasta …[$1.00]
- 4 links sweet chicken apple sausage chopped…[$4.50]
- 1 stick butter divided…[$1.00]
- ½ large onion chopped…[$0.50]
- ½ cup all purpose flour …[$0.12]
- 1½ cup milk …[$0.80]
- 1½ cup heavy cream …[$1.84]
- 3 tbsp. apple butter …[$0.24]
- 5-6 cups cheddar cheese …[$5.00]
- ½ tbsp. salt to taste…[$0.11]
INSTRUCTIONS
- Boil water and make elbow pasta accordingly. Drain and set aside for later.
- In a large pot, brown chopped onions and chicken sausage with 2 tbsp. butter. When cooked, remove from pot and set aside.
- Reduce heat and melt the remaining butter in large pot. Whisk in flour to make a paste and until lumps are gone.
- Next whisk in milk, heavy cream, and apple butter. Let mixture heat back up and let thicken. Toss in cheddar cheese to melt and continue to stir. Add salt to taste.
- Fold in browned chicken sausage and onions and cooked macaroni. Serve mac and cheese hot.
Apple Butter Macaroni and Cheese with Sweet Chicken Sausage
Ingredients
- 1 lb. elbow pasta, …[$1.00]
- 4 links sweet chicken apple sausage, chopped…[$4.50]
- 1 stick butter, divided…[$1.00]
- ½ large onion, chopped…[$0.50]
- ½ cup all purpose flour, …[$0.12]
- 1½ cup milk, …[$0.80]
- 1½ cup heavy cream, …[$1.84]
- 3 tbsp. apple butter, …[$0.24]
- 5-6 cups cheddar cheese, …[$5.00]
- ½ tbsp. salt, to taste…[$0.11]
Instructions
- Boil water and make elbow pasta accordingly. Drain and set aside for later.
- In a large pot, brown chopped onions and chicken sausage with 2 tbsp. butter. When cooked, remove from pot and set aside.
- Reduce heat and melt the remaining butter in large pot. Whisk in flour to make a paste and until lumps are gone.
- Next whisk in milk, heavy cream, and apple butter. Let mixture heat back up and let thicken. Toss in cheddar cheese to melt and continue to stir. Add salt to taste.
- Fold in browned chicken sausage and onions and cooked macaroni. Serve mac and cheese hot.