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Stovetop Creamy Mac and Cheese Recipe

Published: | LAST UPDATED ON: Sep 19, 2020 by Lubna Karim

This easy, creamy and homemade stovetop Mac and Cheese is our family favorite recipe. I call this comfort in bowl. Satisfying and indulging mac and cheese is simple to make and can be a great choice for busy weekday dinner or leisure weekend meal. Do try out this recipe today!

My Sunday Story

Sunday evenings are mostly dull and boring. Nothing to watch on T.V. and sometimes no where to go. Gearing up to another week everyone at home wants to relax on Sunday evening. To kill the boredom I thought I will upload and check the pictures which I took in the afternoon before lunch. Though I always make it a point to transfer the pictures to my laptop and check them immediately after the photo-shoot. I was fully tired and hungry by the time I completed the shoot…so I rushed to table to have my lunch….

Rain was accompanying the dull and boring Sunday evening. Cloudy sky and cool breeze are making the scene more dramatic. Plugging the cord to laptop, I transferred the pictures from my camera. Slowly started checking out by deleting the blurred pictures and suddenly my mobile rang and it was my friend ‘L’. I was quite surprised to see her name blinking on the screen. It’s been long time she has called me…though we had e-mail chat once in a while, she rarely calls me….wondering…I lifted the call. There was rush in her voice….

She directly came to the point and said, she needed a good food photo from me and wanted it urgently. She is interior designer by profession and she designs or remodels dinning and kitchen space for clients. And now I was wondering what to say as I don’t even know what she is looking for that too being some 1000 miles away from me. Without any gap she said, she is designing a dining area for a client who is her friend’s friend and who wants some food pictures hanging around in the dining area. The food pictures should be real not the regular fruit or vegetable basket posters…

Stove Top Mac-n-Cheese

Food Art

And ‘L’ said the only person who came to her mind was me and was she was fully confident that I will help her out. So there is no room to escape, I am trapped. I told her, I was just browsing through today’s photo-shoot and if she would be interested to check them out. I started sharing my desktop showing on pictures through skype and when she saw a picture with empty bowl and fork, she asked me to pause for sometime and then she said, mail me the picture. So I did and in no time she has sent me the picture making some digital changes and giving the border to the picture as it would look when it got framed on the wall….with the caption ‘Framing your food blog adventures’..….and it left me happy and blushing….clearing the cloudy grey skies and bringing the sunshine making my Sunday blissful.
Food Art
Mac and Cheese has got all of my favorite ingredients like cheese, macaroni and oregano. Nothing complicated…this simple recipe is something which I make more often these days…as Lil’M loves to have cheesy macaroni most of the time…..

Mac and Cheese

INGREDIENT:
  • 2 cups uncooked Elbow macaroni
  • 3 tbsp. Butter
  • 1½ cups + ¼ cup Milk
  • 1 cup Cheddar cheese, grated
  • ½ tbsp. Pepper
  • ¼ tbsp. Oregano
  • ¼ tbsp. Red chili flakes
  • Salt

Stove Top Creamy Mac-n-Cheese

How to make stove top mac and cheese

PREPARATION:
  • Bring a large pot of water to boil and cook macaroni as per the instructions on the packet.
  • In the meantime, melt butter in a saucepan over low flame and add milk, grated cheese, salt, pepper and oregano. Combine well. Give the sauce a gentle boil and turn off the flame.
  • When the macaroni is cooked, turn off the flame and drain excess water using colander. Now pour in the above sauce and mix gently.
  • If you feel the mixture is thick enough then add extra ¼ cup reserved milk. Gently stir on low flame till macaroni is completely coated with sauce. Cook for 1-2 minutes by covering with a lid and serve hot.
  • Last but not least add love to make this recipe taste ‘Yummy’.
Stove Top Mac-n-Cheese

Variations in making Mac and Cheese

  • You can add sun dried tomatoes to enhance the taste of the recipe.
  • Try adding red chili flakes for heat.
  • You can even use beaten eggs to the sauce for much creamier version.
  • Toss the macaroni with roasted bread crumbs in the final stage of cooking.
  • You can even choose from Swiss, Mozzarella, Gouda, Parmesan, etc., cheese varieties. But just remember every cheese varies in salt and flavour level.
Stove Top Mac-n-Cheese
MY INDIAN TWIST:
Instead of oregano and pepper I sprinkled spiced curry leaf powder i.e. with Karivepaku Karam Podi….and it tasted ‘yummmmmm’.

Comments

  6. Nivedita Thadani says

    send this to me 🙂 I love it, going to try it soon, adding curry leaves powder, that attracts me:-)

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  15. Preeti Jaipal says

    thanks for visiting kitchen delicacies… pasta looks delicious with lovely presentation…

    Reply

  16. Preeti Jaipal says

    thanks for visiting kitchen delicacies… pasta looks delicious with lovely presentation…

    Reply

  19. Shibi Thomas says

    Loved the first picture and I too make the mac and cheese with homemade sauce. Its an easy resort to go on busy days and kids fav too.

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  21. Sushma Madhuchandra says

    I too make stove top mac n cheese & it tastes delicious! BTW, loved your first picture Lubna

    Reply

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