![]() 1st off thank you for great recipes, tips, & reviews. I never post on a public forum but hoping you can help. It includes video lessons, downloadable and printable PDFs, recipes, as well as a color-coded meal plan and grocery list. If you’re new to the Instant Pot, or even if you consider yourself a “seasoned Instant Pot user”, you’ll want to check out my free Instant Pot School. Add the cheese a handful at a time, stirring to allow it to melt into the macaroni.Turn on the “browning” setting and cook 1-3 minutes until thick, stirring often. ![]() ![]() Remove lid and stir in the milk and half & half.Use a quick pressure release when the 4 minutes are up.Lock the lid and select high pressure and set the timer for 4 minutes.Stir macaroni, water, salt, mustard and cayenne pepper together in the pressure cooker.Like right now! That will also give you just enough time to check out my list of the Top 10 Instant Pot Accessories, plus a few more, because there were too many to stop with just 10! Instant Pot Mac and Cheese If you’ve got a pressure cooker in your cabinet, get it out and try this Instant Pot Mac and Cheese. I always have those ingredients on hand, but I don’t always have cans of evaporated milk in the pantry. I also swapped out the can of evaporated milk, in favor of a combination of milk and half & half. We finished it all for lunches and teenage boy midnight snacks. But this one held up great in the fridge. Sometimes, my kids don’t like the macaroni very well when it’s leftover. And everyone knows you can’t have too much Mac and Cheese! We did have a lot left over after I doubled it, and I wondered if it would get eaten. First, I doubled the recipe because the original only served 4 people. I adapted this recipe from an America’s Test Kitchen magazine. It’s fewer dishes to wash, fewer steps and easier prep. I love that this Instant Pot Mac and Cheese is homemade, but doesn’t require you to make the sauce separately from the macaroni. You know, the one with the processed cheese product, which I do love, but isn’t very healthy. I think it’s even faster than my other mac and cheese. Of all the different mac and cheese, and especially the Instant Pot Mac and Cheese, recipes I’ve tried, this one is the winner. The Very Best Instant Pot Mac and Cheese! Ever! So, whether you have an Instant Pot or Cuisinart or any other brand, this Instant Pot Mac and Cheese will be a big hit! One of the beautiful things about the Instant Pot recipes that you’ll find here on the blog, is that they work in any electric pressure cooker. I’ve also created a 10 Best Instant Pot Accessories post to help you try new things in your Instant Pot too.Īs soon as I tweaked this recipe for Instant Pot Mac and Cheese, I knew I had to share it with you. I’ve been slowly learning to really make use of it and recently I decided to make more of an effort to try some new things. The bags of shredded cheese are coated in a powder to keep it from sticking together, which makes your sauce grainy.I bought a pressure cooker several months ago. One tip for creamy, perfect homemade mac and cheese: don’t use pre-shredded cheese. Just one pot and about 20 minutes is all it takes to make homemade mac and cheese. Spice it up with some seasoning and/or Sriracha.Seal the pot, and cook for 4 minutes at high pressure.Dump pasta, water, butter, and salt into the Instant Pot.I tweaked it a bit to give it a little more flavor, but it was a great starter recipe to get me going. ![]() So I turned to my trusty Instant Pot, to at least keep the level of time and effort the same as the boxed stuff.Īctive Hip Momma’s recipe seemed to be the simplest and most popular one, so I started there. Now, I’m not a crunchy mom in the least, so I don’t even really know what the whole deal with phthalates is, but I did enough Googling to decide I needed to at least attempt to do better for my son, especially in these early years. Apparently all boxed mac and cheese products have evil, murderous phthalates in them. And then I found out that my beloved boxed mac and cheese had to be added to our list of things to be terrified of as a mom (it’s a long list, y’all).
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