With this base recipe, you can customize it with all your favorite versions of mac & cheese by adding your favorite seasonings, mix-ins and cheeses. It isn’t as creamy as a cheese sauce, but it scratches the cheesy mac itch. Now that I’ve made this easy Mac ‘n’ Cheese, I don’t think I’ll ever make it any other way. Elizabeth Karmel No-Boil Overnight Mac & Cheese The base recipe of No-Boil Overnight Mac & Cheese is easy to customize with your favorite. Back in the oven it goes until it is GBD-Golden. At this point, add a layer of sharp cheddar-or your favorite cheese-to the top. Once it is at the al dente stage, remove the foil and put the casserole back in the oven until it is begins to brown along the edges, about 10 minutes. If it isn’t, put the foil back on and bake for another 15 minutes. I covered the dish with heavy-duty foil and baked it at 375☏ for a little more than an hour.Īfter an hour or so, the pasta should be cooked al dente and the squash is no longer hard. When I was ready to bake it, I coated a 7 x 11 casserole dish with olive oil, poured half the mixture into the pan and added a layer of frozen chunked Butternut squash before pouring the rest of the overnight mixture on top. I made my overnight mix, and let it sit covered in a bowl in the refrigerator for a full day.
This week, I made it and used a mixture of Gruyere, swiss and cheddar with a layer of the squash in the middle. It will also add about 25 minutes to the total cooking time, but it is so worth it. If you add a frozen vegetable “mix-in” like chunks of Butternut squash, you need to add it frozen to the overnight mixture just before you bake it. Think sautéed wild mushrooms, cauliflower, Butternut squash, bacon, ham, etc., Plus this recipe can be customized with any of your favorite cheeses and you can add your favorite mix-ins as well. Because the milk, cheese and pasta sits overnight, this is one recipe where the pre-grated cheese from the grocery store works even better than hand-grated cheese. All the ingredients are easy-to-find, and convenient. The fact that you can make homemade mac & cheese with about 2 minutes of hands-on prep time is a compromise that is worth it for me. But the result is so good that I will never make mac & cheese any other way. You may want to ask, is it as creamy as when you make a cheese sauce? No, it is not.
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