How To Make The Cheesiest Mac 'N' Cheese Ever | Delish

guys today we are making the cheesiest Mac it has six cups of cheese and we're topping it with a homemade bread crumb topping it's gonna be killer we've got three incredible cheese's we've got the crazy amount of flavor from the Gruyere it's like a little bit funky we've got the sharpness from the cheddar and a ton of extra flavor from the farm super salty so all together it's gonna make the best mac I've got a pot of water boiling and I'm gonna salt it and I've got a pound of elbows you can obviously use whatever noodle you prefer but elbow the classic according to the Box al dente is like five minutes I'm gonna start checking a little sooner because we're baking this mac and cheese so it's gonna cook in the oven so we don't want mushy mac now we're gonna start making our cheese sauce we've got a big old pot because we're adding a lot of milk we've got butter flour some spices seasonings and of course our cheeses the first step is making a roux a roux is the base of a sauce or a thickening agent that is equal parts fat and flour one stick of butter might sound like a lot of butter but we're making it a lot of mac and cheese so don't worry about it also mac and cheese isn't like health food it's healthy for your soul it's soul food obviously it was right there in front of me I think we can add our flour now we're just cooking this for a minute or so just to get that raw flavor out of the flour keep an eye on this because it can burn now we can add our milk five cooks we're gonna bring this up to a simmer and it'll thicken a bit while it's doing that we can add our spices keeping it very simple with dried mustard powder some salt and what's a black pepper I like my mac with a lot of black pepper but could you red chili flakes sriracha whatever you're into getting nice and thick now is about the thickness of like a white gravy so I'm gonna turn off the heat because this mixture is plenty hot and it's the perfect time to add our cheese's starting with career so now I can add our cheddar last one farm this is gonna add like a lot of saltiness which is great an under salted Mac is a sad mask in my opinion Parmesan adds so many complex flavors it's obviously such a delicious cheese and it is so good at macaroni cheese this is truly therapeutic this is like essentially what how you would make like a queso for chips you could do it now part of me wants to you know but I think we should add the macaroni so now I'm just gonna fold the cheese into the so we've got a 9 by 13 baking dish and I'm just gonna for our cheesy Mac right into it so what's mac and cheese without a breadcrumb topping here I have some very dry very stale bread which is the perfect thing to use to make bread crumbs I would suggest if you're gonna go the store-bought route which is totally cool that you use panko panko is a Japanese style of bread crumb it's really incredible stuff that is made actually by baking the bread using electricity instead of in an oven which I just learned today and I think is fascinating so when you bake the bread with electricity there's absolutely no crust they can grind up the whole loaf and it looks like this and this just stays a lot crispier and absorbs a lot less fat and is just like all-around better than your average bread crumb if you don't have stale day-old bread there's a really easy way to turn your bread into this rock-hard stuff and that is to put it on a baking sheet in a 350 degree oven and bake it for like 15 minutes and it'll dry out really fast and then you want to take it a step further you can cool it on a drying rack which will firm it up and dry it out even more [Music] alright so I grabbed a bowl this is all good to go this is about a cup and then we've got a half a cup of parm I'm gonna do just a small amount of olive oil this will just help with browning and it obviously some good flavor all right so we're gonna put this on top of our Mac just a nice even layer we're ready to put this mac in the oven oh it's so heavy so we have a been preheated at 350 and this is gonna go in for like 20 25 minutes until the top is golden and the cheese is bubbly it's ready oh yeah it smells so good I'm just gonna hit it with some greens its parsley just to give it the illusion of health I cannot eat this the time has finally come we can eat our mac and cheese and I'm so stoked it looks amazing the top got a beautiful golden crust mmm mmm all those cheese's that we put in there just melded into one delicious sauce and it's super dimensional tons of flavor it's got crunch from the breadcrumbs homemade was a good call the parm on top gives it that extra punch of salt it's just out of this world so good I hope you make it because I guarantee you will love it [Music]

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Id: IKcWJVJiNXU

Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 05 2018