How to Make Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheeses

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked macaroni and cheeses using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Macaroni and Cheeses:

1. Make ready 3 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
2. Take 8 oz shredded Sharp Cheddar cheese
3. Make ready 8 oz shredded Colby & Monterey Jack cheeses
4. Take 6 Tbsp. butter, divided
5. Make ready 1/4 cup flour
6. Get 3 cups milk
7. Take 1/4 lb. (4 oz.) Velveeta, cubed
8. Prepare 1/4 cup (or more if you like!) crumbled Blue Cheese
9. Get 1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese, divided
10. Make ready 1/2 tsp. Grey Poupon Dijon mustard
11. Get 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs

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Steps to make Baked Macaroni and Cheeses:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cook macaroni according to package, omitting salt and reducing cooking time by 2 minutes. Rinse and drain. Put 4 Tbsp butter in large pot or Dutch oven on low. Add flour and mix well. (Note: save dishes and use the same pot as you cooked the macaroni in!)
2. Cook flour two minutes, or until hot and bubbly, stirring constantly.
3. Gradually whisk in milk; cook on medium heat 5 minutes, or until sauce comes to a boil and thickens, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
4. Add shredded cheese to pot along with cubed Velveeta, blue cheese, 2 Tbsp. parmesan and mustard; cook until cheeses are melted, stirring constantly. Add macaroni and mix well. Spoon into 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray.
5. Melt remaining butter. Mix with panko crumbs, reserved shredded cheese and parmesan. Sprinkle over macaroni and cheese. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until top is golden brown, and macaroni and cheeses is hot and bubbly around edges.
6. Enjoy! It's divine.

All Reviews for Baked Macaroni and Cheese I. Baked Macaroni and Cheese I. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Get Alton Brown's Baked Macaroni and Cheese from Good Eats on Food Network, a classic recipe made with cheddar cheese and topped with buttery breadcrumbs. Macaroni and cheese—also called mac 'n' cheese in the US, macaroni cheese in the United Kingdom—is a dish of cooked macaroni pasta and a cheese sauce, most commonly cheddar. Cheesy Baked Macaroni is one of our favorite pasta dishes.

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