3 ingredient mac and cheese

Serves:

2 – 4 serves

Ingredients

• 4 cups (1L) full cream milk
• 2 cups elbow macaroni
• 2 cups grated cheddar cheese

Method

Step 1. Gather your three ingredients.

Step 2. Place milk into a small saucepan and bring to the boil over a medium heat, taking care not to boil over.

Step 3. Add the pasta and return to the boil, reduce heat to simmer for 8 minutes.

Step 4. Stir through grated cheese and leave to sit for 2 minutes. Serve.

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Serving Suggestions

Note

• This mac and cheese is easy – but don't turn the heat up too high and burn it.
• The milk gives this a creamy starchy sauce and you can use your favourite cheese for this recipe.
• For an extra boost of flavour I add two teaspoons of chicken-style stock powder to this recipe. It gives it a lovely depth of flavour. You could also use Vegeta.
• You can add any number of things to this recipe for the last 5 minutes of cooking – cooked bacon pieces, frozen peas or even blanched broccoli.
• We also have a healthy mac and cheese recipe that is lower in fat.
• You can also beef up your mac and cheese meal with this one pot beefy macaroni.
• Bacon and leek macaroni cheese is a fancy version of mac and cheese. 
• This meatball macaroni cheese is a hearty meal for the whole family.
• This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand's best recipe finder.