Baked Mac n Cheese
Baked Mac n Cheese

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baked mac n cheese. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Mac n Cheese is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Baked Mac n Cheese is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook baked mac n cheese using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Mac n Cheese:
  1. Get 1/4 cup butter or margarine
  2. Prepare 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
  3. Prepare 2 cup warm milk. microwave 2 cups of milk for about a minute to a minute and a half
  4. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
  5. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  6. Take 1/4 tsp chili powder…… to taste. you can substitute with cayenne for more spice if you wish. The cover photo shown, I used chili powder
  7. Prepare 8 oz cream cheese
  8. Prepare 10 oz shredded sharp white cheddar (I use cracker barrel aged reserve)
  9. Make ready 8 oz elbow macaroni cooked drained
  10. Prepare 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Instructions to make Baked Mac n Cheese:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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