Hi everyone, welcome back to the kitchen today. We're doing a little something different today
I'm gonna show you how we make macaroni and cheese from a box in our house
And if you do it this way people will never know that it came out of a box
it's that delicious a couple of simple changes a couple of ingredients you already have in your fridge and
You are going to wow them. I can't wait to show you how this all comes together
Today we are going to do something a little bit different and I really want to do this because
recently, I
cooked for our annual
Vacation Bible School and because we have hours in the evenings we
provided supper for the children and the workers that volunteers and
I made a menu for the five nights of that week and one of the nights we were making macaroni and cheese and I put
Chopped up broccoli in it too, you know give it a little more nutritional
boost
But we're standing there and they the adults really love the mac and cheese and some of the kids
Didn't really care that for the fact that I put veggies in it, but regardless
They were asking me how do you get the mac and cheese this tasty?
Because when I make Matt gu so you were asking me did you make this from scratch?
I'm like no I used up. I used a box
But you have to know how to make the macaroni and cheese out of the box
Tastes like it didn't come out of the box
And today we're gonna focus on that and I'm gonna help you to make the creamiest macaroni and cheese cheese sauce ever
by not following the directions on the box because
They are wrong and you will love this method. So what you want to do is boil up your noodles
I have those going over here
They're all ready to go and then follow the instructions on the box my box of macaroni and cheese
Move to a point to a point as far as the measurements for the milk and the butter
Mine calls for a half a cup of milk and a half a stick or a quarter cup of butter
And here's the cheese sauce powder put it in a little dish
we're also gonna be adding a cup of shredded cheddar cheese and
The magic ingredient which will make your cheese sauce delicious and super creamy every single time
About a quarter of a cup of sour cream. I
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Okay, we're gonna get started making our cheese sauce now on the instructions
It says boil your noodles drain them return to the pot then add the other ingredients
wrong, I
Promise you if you do that you're going to end up with a clumpy gross mess
So melt your butter while your noodles are draining, okay, and then put the saucepan back on the burner
Melt your butter then add your milk and then add your cheese sauce mix get a whisk and whisk
It until it's smooth and begins to thicken
Now this will work with whatever
Brand of macaroni and cheese you like to buy whether it's the regular or the thick and creamy which is the kind
I like to buy because it really has a nicer taste
Also, you can use the organic version of the regular macaroni and cheese that has the cheese powder
This will work with any kind of box mac and cheese that comes for the cheese powder
This is not for the kind that comes with the cheese sauce already in the packet
Okay, so there I'm gonna turn my burner down just a little bit and now we're gonna add the shredded cheese
Give this a stir now
That cheese powder says it's cheese and it may have been cheese once in another life
but once they put it in the packet after they dried it out put it in the packet it became
Something that tastes like cheese but isn't really cheese
So what we're gonna do is add some really good cheddar cheese back into the mix and then we're going to add the magic
the sour cream
Really does something
Wonderful to the sauce. It loosens it up a little it brings everything together
It adds a little bit of Tang and it really makes this sauce taste
Homemade so just get this in here and now I'm gonna turn off my burner and now we're going to put our cooked noodles back
in
So now just stir everything up together
And tell me that that doesn't look delicious, right?
This is a really great way of making box mac and cheese and you're gonna love it
This is a really quick way to make it deliciously. It's gonna be creamy
it's gonna be cheesy and tangy and
If you don't like to if you don't want to use the shredded cheddar you can use the sliced American cheese
Just cut it up into like little squares and put it in there. I would use maybe a
Half a dozen slices, that would be my recommendation
You don't have to add any cheese at all, but I do recommend using the sour cream regardless
Because that's what's really gonna make this pop and become
Amazing and no one is it's super creamy super super creamy and no one's gonna believe that it came out of a box mix
Because it simply doesn't taste that way
We've been making our macaroni and cheese like this for a number of years and several years ago
I think we did where Molly made this but I think I took that video down and
She said thank God she the background over here. And so I wanted to kind of revisit this because
While we were serving the mac and cheese at Vacation Bible School
Someone said oh I don't I just dumped everything in the pot and that's what it tell you to do on the box
But it's been my experience that the powder doesn't always dissolve very well
It doesn't always get distributed very well. And sometimes it just doesn't taste that good
so this is
my alternative my suggestion for you to give a try how you can boost the creaminess and the flavor and
The nutrition of your box macaroni and cheese and your family is going to love it
So I hope you give this a try and I hope that you love it and until next time I'll see ya