Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy baked mac & 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.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have easy baked mac & cheese using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Baked Mac & Cheese:
- Get 16 oz elbow noodles
- Make ready 1/4 cup butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 2 cup half & half
- Get 1 1/2 cup milk
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- Take 3/4 tsp mustard powder
- Prepare 8 dash hot sauce (I use Crystal)
- Get 3 stick Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese
- Get 5 slice bacon
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Instructions to make Easy Baked Mac & Cheese:
- Preheat oven to 375
- Boil elbow noodles for approx. 9-10 min or until al dente.
- While noodles are cooking, shred cheddar cheese.
- Melt butter in saucepan and add flour, mustard powder, hot sauce, salt & pepper. Let bubble, while stirring for 2-3 min.
- Add milk and half & half to saucepan while stirring.
- Once milk sauce has become warm, put 2 sticks worth of cheese (16oz) in milk mixture and stir
- Drain noodles and return to pot. Add cheese sauce to noodles. Add mac & cheese to ungreased 13x9 baking dish.
- Bake mac & cheese for 30 minutes or until bubbly.
- While baking macaroni, cook bacon slices and once cooled, crumble bacon, set aside.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle last stick of cheese on top, followed by crumbled bacon.
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