Homemade Macaroni and Cheese You Will Love
Recipe: #8018
February 05, 2013
Categories: Side Dishes, Cheese, Cheddar, Game/Sports Day, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Kid's Lunches, Macaroni, Vegetarian Dinner, more
"You'll love the rich flavour loaded with real cheese and oven baked. While stirring the cooked macaroni into the cheese sauce, try adding sliced bite-size pieces of cooked vegetables, hot dogs or cooked sausage."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (285 g)
- Calories 633.1
- Total Fat - 32.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 19.6 g
- Cholesterol - 91.4 mg
- Sodium - 1150.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 54 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5 g
- Sugars - 6.7 g
- Protein - 35.8 g
- Calcium - 937.2 mg
- Iron - 2.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Heat oven to 350 F. Cook macaroni as directed on package (I only cook it to about halway otherwise it gets to soft in the oven).
Step 2
While macaroni is cooking, melt butter in 3 or 4-quart saucepan over low heat. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, mustard and Worcestershire sauce and cayenne pepper; cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly; remove from heat. Stir in milk, heat to boiling, stirring constanly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in cheese. Cook, stirring occasionally, until cheese is melted.
Step 3
Drain macaroni. Gently stir macaroni into cheese sauce. Pour into a greased 2-quart casserole. Bake uncovered 20 to 25 minutes or until bubbly.
Tips
No special items needed.