Luxury Mac n Cheese. A delicious baked pasta dish using 5 different cheeses. Easy recipe with great flavors and perfect as a main or side dish!

Name: Luxury Mac n Cheese
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 16 oz of cooked macaroni; 4 oz Gouda; 4 oz pepper jack cheese; 4 oz extra sharp, white cheese; 4 oz of cream cheese; 4 oz of Gruyere; 1 cup of italian bread crumbs; 2 cups of milk or cream; 4 TBS butter; 4 TBS flour; Pinch of nutmeg; A sprinkling of chopped parsley

Luxury Mac n Cheese. A delicious baked pasta dish using 5 cheeses. Easy recipe with great flavors and perfect as a main or side dish!

Luxury Mac n Cheese is a wonderful dish to serve either as a main meal or a side dish.

The fact this easy recipe uses 5 different cheeses makes for a luxurious cheese packed dish! It’s pure comfort food at it’s best, and as far as the recipe goes, it’s really easy.

To save time, you can obviously buy ready grated cheese, but if you have some teenagers in the house, you can give them the task of grating the cheese.

That always goes down well when they know they’ll be having this mac and cheese for their dinner!

Here, Peggy made it in individual oven pots for portion control and she has customized them to suit her family as some like with and some without breadcrumbs! But of course, you can also make it in one ovenproof dish and serve at the table.

It’s certainly popular and the addition of Pepper Jack cheese adds another flavor dimension.

This recipe will also show you how we make a simple roux sauce, which will have the cheeses in it.

When assembled, the mac n cheese is baked in the oven, and you get a wonderful crispy topping to add extra texture to the dish. We also have a really easy stovetop mac n cheese recipe if you’d like to try that too.

Recipe from Peggy Mitchell

⏲️ Prep time

15 minutes

⏲️ Baking time

Approx 10 minutes

👪 Serving size

6 – 8 Persons

🧀 Ingredients

16 oz of cooked macaroni
4 oz Gouda
4 oz pepper jack cheese
4 oz extra sharp (white cheese)
4 oz of cream cheese
4 oz of Gruyere
1 cup of italian bread crumbs
2 cups of milk or cream
4 TBS butter
4 TBS flour
Pinch of nutmeg
A sprinkling of chopped parsley

🔪 Instructions

1. Shred all the cheeses and put in a bowl.

2. Melt butter and add your flour to start your roux sauce. When you have let your flour cook down to get the flour taste out approx a minute or two add your two cups of milk or cream it’s up to you calorie-wise.

Luxury Mac n Cheese. Making the roux sauce

After your roux starts to thicken add all your cheeses till well combined.

When combined grate over a pinch of fresh nutmeg ( if don’t have fresh jarred nutmeg will do. Just a pinch, or it will be overwhelming) Nutmeg brings out the nuttiness of your cheeses if you didn’t know this already.

3. Add the cooked macaroni to your oven dish or dishes if using individual dishes.

Pour the cheese right over your cooked macaroni and top with your Italian bread crumbs and chopped parsley and bake on 425 F until top is golden brown. Enjoy!

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