MasterChef’s Dani Venn shares how to make her ‘super simple’ pumpkin macaroni cheese 

MasterChef’s Dani Venn has revealed how to make the macaroni cheese with a healthy and delicious twist – adding pumpkin to the popular dish.

The 34-year-old mother of two posted the video tutorial on Instagram and said it is super easy and fast to make, drawing parallels to the viral TikTok pasta.

‘I like it because it has half a kilo of hidden vegetables,’ the mum said. 

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The video starts with the celebrity chef slapping 250grams of smooth ricotta into a baking dish with 500grams of diced pumpkin.

She then drizzles olive oil over the top and adds a sprinkle of paprika and salt before popping it into the oven for 30 minutes.

When the roasted pumpkin came out she mashed it all up, added half a cup of milk, cheese and pasta.

She then topped it with more cheese and baked until golden.

Her two kids gave a double thumbs up each to the easy dinner.

‘It feeds a family with leftovers, winning at life,’ she said on her post. 

And people were just as excited over the recipe as Dani. 

‘I would actually eat this mac and cheese,’ one woman said before adding her children might eat it too.

‘I bet this taste so good and is cheap,’ another mum said.

‘I need this in my life,’ another woman said. 

Dani said the pasta used doesn’t really matter, and can even be switched to a gluten free variety.

She suggests adding bacon to ‘amp it up’ and using a minimum of three different cheeses.

‘You can use whatever cheese you like but I recommend a minimum of three cheeses because you can,’ she said.

Think something melty like cheddar or mozzarella and something sharp like Parmesan too,’ she added.