Grammy's Kitchen · Macaroni and Cheese · Baked Macaroni and Cheese
One of 120 macaroni and cheese recipes we measured
from www.billyparisi.com
43 cooks on www.billyparisi.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 120.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| cheese | 149% | 112% |
| dairy | 215% | 168% |
| fat | 8% | 13% |
| thickener | 4% | 0% |
| egg | 22% | 0% |
| salt | 0% | 1% |
| aromatics | 24% | 0% |
| different cheeses | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| melt idx | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| cheese flavor idx | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| stretch idx | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 57 g | 4 tablespoons unsalted butter |
| 150 g | 1 peeled and small diced yellow onion |
| 12 g | 4 finely minced cloves of garlic |
| 30 g | 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour |
| 1464 g | 6 cups whole milk |
| 339 g | 3 cups shredded sharp cheddar |
| 339 g | 3 cups shredded white cheddar |
| 339 g | 3 cups shredded American cheese |
| 680 g | 1 1/2 pounds macaroni noodles |
| 150 g | 3 large eggs |
| sea salt and fresh cracked pepper |
Method: 9 steps, published by www.billyparisi.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Nice dish. Straight-forward and easy-to-follow recipe. Comes together quickly,though I dirtied up a bunch of bowls - but that's just me. I used different cheeses - using what I had on hand - I can see making it with a variety of cheeses because this is a flexi” — a cook, 5.0★
“I made this recipe for our family Christmas dinner. Everyone loved it. I followed the recipe exactly. My grandkids couldn’t get enough of it. And we had some leftover for the following day, so easy to reheat. A little splash of milk and some American cheese an” — a cook, 5.0★