Make Your Own Kraft Dinner - Cheese Macaroni

Macaroni and Cheese

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Copycat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

Yield: Enough cheese sauce for 3-4 servings
PREP: 5 mins
COOK: 15 mins
TOTAL: 20 minutes

INGREDIENTS

• Pasta of your choice

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For the cheese sauce

• 2 cups whole milk
• ½ cup WisPride (chopped up cheese) - i've used CURDS
• ½ cup Velveeta
• 8 slices yellow American cheese
• 6 tablespoons salted butter
• ½ teaspoon Colman’s dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• Pinch of nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 2–3 drops Tabasco sauce
• Orange food coloring (optional)

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cook pasta according to package directions.
2. To prepare the cheese sauce, place all ingredients into a medium sauce pan and heat until the cheese is melted and the mixture blended. Remove from heat and store in refrigerator for later use or mix one cup of heated cheese sauce to three cups of cooked pasta and serve immediately.
3. Note: If you want this to look and taste just like the boxed mix, use all of the salt, butter and use orange food coloring. Otherwise, you can cut back on the salt and butter and omit the food coloring for a healthier version. This will all depend on how finicky your child is.
4. Another tip to make this extra healthy is to add cooked pureed sweet potatoes and/or cooked pureed cauliflower with a little milk to thin them down. The taste only changes a bit and you are getting a healthier version of the copycat recipe into your child. We slowly added these vegetables over time to get our daughter used to the taste and now her cheese sauce is 1/3 cheese sauce, 1/3 pureed sweet potato and 1/3 pureed cauliflower.
5. (She knows we add in the vegetables and is fine with it!)

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