Grammy's Kitchen · Macaroni and Cheese · The Best Stovetop Mac and Cheese
One of 120 macaroni and cheese recipes we measured
8 cooks on www.lifesambrosia.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 | 157% | 112% |
| dairy | 174% | 168% |
| fat | 14% | 13% |
| thickener | 7% | 0% |
| salt | 2% | 1% |
| different cheeses | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| melt idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| cheese flavor idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| stretch idx | 0.4 | 0.3 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 210 g | 2 cups dried elbow macaroni |
| 28 g | 2 tablespoons unsalted butter |
| 15 g | 2 tablespoons flour |
| 366 g | 1 1/2 cups milk |
| 170 g | 1 1/2 cups shredded medium cheddar cheese (room temperature ) |
| 75 g | 3/4 cup shredded Gruyere cheese (room temperature ) |
| 85 g | 3/4 cup shredded Havarti cheese (room temperature ) |
| 4 g | 3/4 teaspoon seasoning salt |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon fresh cracked black pepper |
Method: 4 steps, published by www.lifesambrosia.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Exquisite recipe! Been using it several years now — its the only one I use ever since I first found and made the recipe. One trivial thing — and really this does not warrant mentioning but just in case you want to make a correction. In the ingredients list it ” — a cook
“Had a great recipe for mac and cheese with Gruyere as one of the cheeses and absolutely loved the mellowness of it all. Somehow I lost the recipe and spent some time trying to duplicate what I remembered. Well, lucky that your recipe came along and I’m a very ” — a cook