American
Creamy Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Creamy Baked Macaroni and Cheese is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb elbow macaroni
- 3 cups sharp cheddar
- 1 cup Monterey Jack
- 3 cups whole milk
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 tsp mustard powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 375F and cook the macaroni until just shy of al dente, about 7 minutes, then drain.
- Melt the butter in a pot, whisk in the flour and mustard powder, and cook 1 minute.
- Gradually whisk in the milk and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes.
- Off the heat, stir in most of the cheese until smooth, then season with salt and pepper.
- Fold in the macaroni and transfer to a baking dish, topping with the remaining cheese and the breadcrumbs.
- Bake until bubbling and golden, about 20 minutes.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Creamy Baked Macaroni and Cheese, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Creamy Baked Macaroni and Cheese carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Gluten | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Creamy Baked Macaroni and Cheese takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on macaroni, cheese, and milk.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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