Recipe: Appetizing Baked Mac and Cheese

Baked Mac and Cheese. He BEST Homemade Mac and Cheese of your LIFE. Outrageously cheesy, ultra creamy, and topped with a crunchy Panko-Parmesan topping, this mac and cheese recipe is most definitely a keeper. I used three different cheese and a homemade cheese sauce to take this macaroni and cheese recipe.

If you have a cast iron or oven-safe pan handy, you can even bake it in the same pan that you use to make the sauce! Super simple, super easy and super quick. You'll never want the boxed stuff ever again! You can have Baked Mac and Cheese using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Baked Mac and Cheese

1. 🢂 16 oz of elbow macaroni.
2. 🢂 2 c. of Cheddar cheese.
3. 🢂 1 c. of Colby cheese.
4. 🢂 3 c. of Milk.
5. 🢂 1/4 c. of Butter.
6. 🢂 2 1/2 tbsp. of Flour.
7. 🢂 2 tsp. of Salt.
8. 🢂 1/2 tsp. of Onion salt.
9. 🢂 2 tsp. of Sugar.
10. 🢂 of Optional which I did this time.
11. 🢂 1 1/2 lbs of ground beef.
12. 🢂 2 tsp. of Freshly minced ginger.
13. 🢂 1/4 c. of Diced onion.
14. 🢂 1/4 c. of French's fried onions gives a bit of crunch to the creamy.

This is the first baked mac and cheese I have made that we could actually eat! Southern Baked Mac and Cheese - super creamy, cheesy, soulful baked mac and cheese filled with great Southern flavors. You will never break open a box again! Baked mac and cheese is one of our favorite comfort foods ever!

step by step Baked Mac and Cheese

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Cook pasta as directed about 9 minutes and put in a bowl.
3. Brown meat adding in ginger and onion then drain and add to the bowl macaroni is in and mix them together.
4. In a pot melt butter and mix in flour to make a roux.
5. Add milk slowly when it starts to thicken add 3/4 of the cheese.
6. Add sugar and both salts.
7. Put pasta mix in a baking dish and pour cheese sauce over pasta and top with remaining cheese and fried onions if you like.
8. Bake at for 30 minutes and dinner is ready😀.

Cheese: Sharp cheddar gives this baked mac and cheese tons of flavor. The addition of gruyere to the cheese sauce in this recipe is next level but of course whatever you have on and will work just do not use pre-shredded cheese. If this baked mac and cheese happens to be fed to you by a friend who invites you over when you are sad beyond sadness, then It was everything wonderful that a baked mac and cheese should be - not overwhelmingly gooey, just the right balance of inner cheesiness with crispy baked-up edges and. It can be served as a main dish or side dish. You guys all know my dad makes the BEST cinnamon rolls.