How to Make Perfect Loaded Mac and Cheese

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, loaded mac and cheese. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Loaded Mac and Cheese is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Loaded Mac and Cheese is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have loaded mac and cheese using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Loaded Mac and Cheese:

1. Prepare crumbled Italian sausage
2. Get large red pepper, diced
3. Prepare elbow macaroni
4. Take onion, diced
5. Get pepper
6. Prepare salt
7. Get paprika
8. Take garlic powder
9. Make ready red pepper flakes
10. Get onion powder
11. Prepare oregano
12. Take cayenne
13. Take condensed milk, 12 oz
14. Prepare ground mustard
15. Prepare large eggs
16. Get American cheese shredded, about 8 ounces
17. Take melting cheese (gouda, cheddar, etc.)
18. Make ready sriracha sauce
19. Prepare milk
20. Get unsalted butter
21. Make ready flour
22. Get sour cream and parsley for garnish

Steps to make Loaded Mac and Cheese:

1. Bring a large pot of water (with at least a couple inches of water above the macaroni) to boil with macaroni in the water. Once it boils cover and remove from heat. Let pasta soak for about 8 minutes. This is a little trick from Serious Eats. It cooks the same as when you add the pasta too boiling water, but it's quicker and uses less energy.
2. In the meantime, brown crumbled sausage in a large skillet. When done drain sausage and put to the side in a large bowl. Reserve a little grease in the pan.
3. Cook onions and peppers in reserved grease. Lay out in a single layer and allow to cook undisturbed for about 3 minutes. This will get some nice browning. Season with salt, pepper, paprika, cayenne, onion and garlic powders. About a dash of each. When you do stir the vegetables, make sure to scrape the bottome of the pan to get as much of the frond (yummy browned bits) off the pan and onto your food.
4. When the onions are translucent and the peppers are slightly tender (about 10-15 minutes over medium-high heat) transfer the veggies to the bowl with the sausage. Mix them around, then cover and save for later
5. Combine condensed milk, ground mustard, american cheese (I recommend shredding the slices individually with your fingers. If you try to stack them and cut you will spend a good amount of time prying the cheese slices from their brethren), melting cheese of your choice, and sriracha sauce. Mix to a uniform consistency.
6. By this time your pasta should be done, drain and toss with some olive oil to prevent sticking, out to the side. This will all come together in about 5 minutes.
7. Take a large pot (this is where you'll put everything together) and melt the stick of butter over medium heat. When completely melted add flour and stir continuously for 3-4 minutes until the mixture thickens. Don't you dare stop stirring! Just kidding, but seriously, you want to keep the contents moving. We don't want the flour to burn on us.
8. Add pasta and sausage mixture to the pot. Toss to coat in the butter mixture.
9. Pour in cheese mixture and start stirring. There is a lot going on here so your best bet to get a uniform distribution is to work your utensil to the bottom of the pot and continue to slowly fold the pasta from the bottom into the center.
10. Continue to stir and it will begin to resemble Mac and cheese. Work in a little milk (about a tbsp) to make stirring a little easier.
11. Take this opportunity to season to taste with salt pepper and siracha.
12. You're finished stirring when the cheese is a gooey uniform mixture and there is no bits of solid cheese left. Like this! Enjoy

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