Canadian

Baked Mac and Cheese

Name: Baked Mac and Cheese
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 1 lb elbow macaroni; 3 tbsp butter; 3 tbsp all purpose flour; 2.5 cups milk; 3 cups shredded cheddar; 1/2 cup breadcrumbs; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Baked Mac and Cheese is Canadian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb elbow macaroni
3 tbsp butter
3 tbsp all purpose flour
2.5 cups milk
3 cups shredded cheddar
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 375F and boil the macaroni according to the packet directions, then drain.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and whisk in the flour, cooking for a minute.
Gradually whisk in the milk and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes, then stir in most of the cheddar until melted.
Fold the macaroni through the sauce, season with salt and pepper, and spoon into a baking dish.
Scatter with the remaining cheddar and the breadcrumbs, and bake until golden and bubbling, about 20 minutes.

Watch how to cook Baked Mac and Cheese

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How To Make The Best Baked Mac And Cheese Play the video

Serve it with

A Canadian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Baked Mac and Cheese, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Green Beans
  
  10 min
What it is eaten with
- Canadian Dinner Rolls
  
  12 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Baked Mac and Cheese carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Baked Mac and Cheese
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Gluten	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 640 kcal
Protein: 28 g
Carbs: 72 g
Fat: 27 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 660 mg
Saturated fat: 17 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Baked Mac and Cheese takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.