Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baked mac n cheese. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This baked mac and cheese is a family favorite recipe, loved by both children and adults. My version uses a combination of cheeses for a gloriously cheesy dish! The ultimate classic Baked Mac and Cheese, with an insane cheesy sauce and topped with an irresistible golden, buttery breadcrumb topping.
Baked Mac n Cheese is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Baked Mac n Cheese is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baked mac n cheese using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Baked Mac n Cheese:
- Make ready butter or margarine
- Get all-purpose flour
- Get warm milk. microwave 2 cups of milk for about a minute to a minute and a half
- Take salt
- Make ready ground black pepper
- Take chili powder…… to taste. you can substitute with cayenne for more spice if you wish. The cover photo shown, I used chili powder
- Prepare cream cheese
- Take shredded sharp white cheddar (I use cracker barrel aged reserve)
- Make ready elbow macaroni cooked drained
- Make ready seasoned bread crumbs
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Steps to make Baked Mac n Cheese:
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Use a 3 qt pan to melt butter or margarine on medium low heat. Add flour and whisk until smooth and lump free. Slowly stir in warm milk whisking constantly. Let cook for about 5 minutes or until thickened.
- Add salt, pepper and chili powder and cream cheese. Mix until cream cheese melts thoroughly. Remove from heat and immediately add shredded cheese (save some for the top). Mix well.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, pour cheese mixture over cooked, drained macaroni. Mix until all pasta is coated and let it set in the bowl for 5 minutes or so. This helps give the pasta time to absorb some of the cheese sauce.
- Spoon macaroni and cheese mixture into a greased 2 quart baking dish. Add some shredded cheese to the top and sprinkle with seasoned bread crumbs. For more crunch add more crumbs. Bake for 20 minutes or until bubbly and golden brown.
I am not a mac n cheese maker! I made this for family they liked it a lot! Everyone's favorite classic mac and cheese! Super simple, super easy and super quick. You'll never want the boxed stuff ever again!
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