You have recommended me to try this, so my recipe is the following:
500g Makkaroni, 500g ground beef/pork mix, 1 onion, 1l milk, 4 eggs, half a bag of cheese.
I have cooked the pasta and meet + onions separately. When both was done, I combined it, put it into a casserole dish and poured the milk/egg mix over it. I baked it for 45min at 175C.
10min before it was done, I have put the cheese on top.
What do you think?
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1tvwpqm
Posted by Builderhummel
37 Comments
looks good to me!
In my opinion cheese doesn’t belong to makaroonilaatikko. I put fuck ton of butter and bread crumbs on top, people then can add cheese if they want to, even though I do not believe it to be a part of the recipe.
Looks amazing!
I love cheese.
Would
Looks like food!
Try putting a whole block of koskenlaskija next time. Trust me.
Looks good. Just needs ketchup
Only missing little bit of korppujauho from the top!
I´d put some of the cheese INSIDE, so that it doesn’t form a big shield on top. Also, don’t cook the macaroni until it’s soft, leave it al dente before putting it in the oven. But there’s absolutely nothing wrong with your version, unless you forgot seasoning (black pepper, paprika, some garlic).
Looks good
Looks like a nice makaronilaatikko to me. Just needs some ketchup.
And that’s a good start for customization. Like adding processed cheese similar to koskenlaskija, or bell pepper or bacon. Or all of those. And garlic works great too, usually I mix most of the spices/seasonings to the milk-egg mix.
That looks like a proper finnish cookie cutter macaron box, good job!
Lihamakaronilaatti
Simple food with sooo many ways to modify it.
E.g. I once mixed crumbled blue-cheese into the mac&meat mix.. and another time used a taco-spice mix to the meat. That was also OK.
I dislike ketchup, so spicy bbq-sauce is my go-to.
Looks perfect! Would eat.
Looks really good! 🤩
It looks great!
You don’t need to cook the pasta beforehand though, so many people make this and it’s such a useless step in my opinion! I’ve never understood why people do this. Just put the pasta uncooked in the mix, it’s already full of liquid the milk will cook the pasta! Let it be in oven for 20mins, then mixmix, cheese on top and another 20-40mins and it’s ready.
I dont do cheese but you do you. Looks like what its supposed to look.
It doesent matter how it looks or tastes because you need to drown it in ketchup.
I like to make mine with mutti tomatosauce, 400g of minced meat fried, put on 400g of makaroni, 400g of mutti, 4dl of water, Salt and pepper, boil for 8 mins. Put everything in the cassarile dish, 3eggs+6dl of milk with salt and paprika pour over the rest, little less of cheese than you right at the start so it gets a nice color.
Looks good. I haven’t done makaronilaatikko in ages, last time must be something like 6 or 7 years ago. My recipe has less milk so the milk and egg mix doesn’t rise as much as in your recipe. I also put pork belly slices (as it was done by my parents) or cut slices from slow-smoked pork belly on top (my experimentation) and then cover that with grated cheese and then put it in the oven. My bake time is also 45 minutes but at 150C and then 15 minutes at 200C. It’s very good fresh from the oven, but I’ve always liked it way more on the following days when I fry it on the pan and it gets much drier. As someone not interested in cooking, this was really the only recipe that I wanted to get from my parents as it was my favourite as a kid, and it’s really the only recipe that I feel like making the effort to cook for myself.
Looks good. Unfortunately makaronilaatikko like this has really bland flavours, so ketchup is a must!
1 egg for each 2dl of liquid you adding so in this recipe make it 5 eggs next time! Let rest 1 hour after taking out of oven and it should have settled enough. Looks good already tho! Would eat, gotta go make some food now 🙂
edit:
Try also with mixing the meat&macaroni with the liquid+eggs before putting it into the oven pan. This was taught by my grandma and it makes the liquids go more inside the macaroni & becomes more juicy! 🙂
Looks perfect. It’s my favorite comfort food. Sometimes I add some spicyness to it sometimes Koskenlaskija. Good choice.
Just drown it in ketchup and you’re good to go!
What I found. A lot more tasteful is simply replacing all the milk with beef broth m tastes so much better!
Cheese, must be rich.
Looks good! You can endlessly tweak this recipe too, to make it your own.
I put in finely grated carrot and top it with tomato slices when I want to up the vegetable content. I cube and freeze the bits of block cheese that are always left over and hide them inside the casserole. Can’t forget the spices, like smoked paprika. Yummy comfort food.
People are giving their ideas but I make it pretty much exactly same as you, except I usually use a recipe of 400g makaroni & 400g jauheliha, half an onion (though I usually take a big onion), 7dl milk and 3 eggs (black pepper in that milk egg thing).
and I also put the cheese on top like you.
and lots of ketchup
Too much cheese on top
It’s all in the seasoning. I like to do it very traditional, with allspice. Most people these days seem to use black pepper instead. I also put a dash of nutmeg in the egg milk and a generous squirt of finnish mustard in the ground meat after frying it. I find red label emmental cheese works best.
I’d make the top a bit more chrispy by keeping it longer in the oven, otherwise looking good!
Looks just as disgusting as the real thing.
Looks just as disgusting as the real thing.
Decent although my mom doesnt put cheese on it, looks great tho although my picky butt would probably not wanna eat it since sometimes if my brain doesnt like something that looks odd it associates it with tasting gross but im sure its delicious so dont mind my ramblings😅
F yeah food of the goods right there
Maybe a hint too much cheese but otherwise looks quite good. I’d let the cheese cook a bit longer and maybe mix some of it in to the casserole with other ingredients like someone other said
You don’t actually need to cook the pasta at all beforehand. Just put the macaronis raw to the casserole with your cooked beef and onions. The macaroni will cook in the liguid and suck all the flavor also meantime.
I would also use more eggs.
And if you want without milk, just replace the milk with beef broth. I prefer this way, i think it comes better.