Description
This is especially good to make when apples are in season and at the peak of their flavor, and it features a favorite food pairing: sweet-tart apples with cheddar cheese.
Ingredients
- Nonstick Cooking Spray
- Rigatoni Pasta
- Milk
- All-purpose Flour
- Cheese
- Salt
- Bottled Hot Pepper Sauce
- Jonathan Apples
- Kielbasa
- Green Onion
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees f
- Coat a 2-quart baking dish or casserole with nonstick cooking spray
- Set aside
- Cook pasta according to package directions in a large saucepan
- Drain and return to saucepan
- Set aside
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan whisk together milk and flour
- Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly
- Cook and stir 1 minute more
- Remove from heat
- Stir 1 / 2 cup of cheese, salt and hot pepper sauce into the milk mixture until smooth
- In the large saucepan toss together the cooked pasta, apples, kielbasa and cheese sauce
- Transfer to prepared baking dish
- Cover with foil
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes
- Uncover and carefully stir pasta mixture
- Sprinkle with remaining 1 / 2 cup cheese and the green onion
- Bake 10-15 minuted more or until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbly
- Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes before serving