The creamiest, cheesiest macaroni and cheese could be yours in only 20 minutes.
Homemade with fresh ingredients. Real ingredients. On your table just as quickly as the processed-powdered-cheese-in-a-box-stuff.
While the pasta cooks you make a simple cheddar cheese sauce with milk, a touch of mustard (or not), salt and my secret weapon: cream cheese. Cream cheese adds flavor, a super creamy texture and thickens it without using flour.
I’m a macaroni and cheese snob. My Mom always made us baked macaroni and cheese growing up. We never had the blue boxes in our house. Then I grew up and made the packaged version for myself. It was nothing special when you’ve been eating homemade your entire life. Thanks Mom.
This is as close as you can get to mimicking store-bought without all the falseness of chemicals and preservatives.
A recipe for tried and true comfort.
Stove-top macaroni and cheese in less than 20 minutes!
Ingredients
Instructions
- Cook the pasta in plenty of salted water according to package directions.
- Meanwhile in a medium-sized saucepan warm the milk over medium heat, when you see wisps of steam rising off it turn heat down to medium-low and add cream cheese. Break the cream cheese apart and whisk until melted.
- Stir in mustard then add cheddar. Stir and/or whisk until cheddar is completely melted. Stir in salt. Remove from heat.
- Add the drained pasta to the cheese sauce and stir until pasta is completely coated. Serve immediately.
I was just complaining to a friend the other day how awful I find the boxed version. This looks wonderful!
We recently tried a stove-top pumpkin version… yum-o! Love the cream cheese in this recipe; bet it made it super creamy.
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My hubby loves mac and cheese and this looks perfect for quick meals too. Thanks Reeni!
Kitty kisses to handsome Moon!
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I could really go for a bowl of this right now! And so easy too. Great recipe!
I love your quick stove top mac & cheese! I was thinking of doing it last week, but just didn’t come up with it. Thanks. My dad had homemade cracked wheat bread growing up, to where the soft store bought was a treat…now he makes his own bread all the time! :)
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