Crockpot Mac and Cheese - Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese Recipe (Homemade)

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It's a massive pile of shredded cheese .

That's a mild cheddar , sharp cheddar , uh and Monterey Jack and a little bit of Colby .

It's 16 .

No , actually , I'm sorry .

It's 20 ounces of cheese .

What am I gonna do with a big pile of shredded cheese and a crock pot .

I'm gonna make crackpot macaroni and cheese .

But in order to do this , I still need to make a cheese sauce .

So let's head over to the stove and let's start a roux .

All right , I've got a skillet .

I'm gonna start a rou a roux is fat .

In this case , butter , but you could use oil , um or you could use any other fat that can melt .

Uh and then flour and then some kind of cream or milk .

In this case , I'm using whole milk and flour and butter .

It's about four tablespoons of butter , two tablespoons of flour .

Once this gets melted down , we'll add in the flour , butter's melted .

So the flour is going in , stir this up until it combines .

It will be very quick and you'll see that it gets that kind of creamy texture and color of the butter .

Our milk two cups and I've got this on a medium heat .

It's about a four or so electric stoves .

Ok .

You can see that this is starting to thicken up a bit .

Um , I added all the milk in , excuse me .

So while this is starting to thicken , I'm just gonna take a couple of handfuls and we're slowly gonna incorporate in our shredded cheese .

This is gonna be the cheese sauce portion .

I'm not gonna put the whole thing of cheese in because personally , I like my mac and cheese to have a little bit of melted cheese and a little bit of uh cheese sauce in it .

So I'm gonna put about half of this into the sauce and this is the process , we just keep stirring it , let it combine , add a little more , stir it and then it combine .

So this will take a couple of minutes and when we come back , we'll have some nice cheese sauce ready to go .

OK ?

You can see that .

Now , we've got more of a color of the cheese .

This is paprika .

I'm just putting a pinch , gonna give it a nice little taste and then this is black pepper .

Yeah .

Again , just a pinch .

And finally uh kosher salt and not a lot .

Just a pinch .

OK .

So this is pretty well .

I'm gonna take this off in here in my slow cooker .

I have , uh , £2 of macaroni noodles or elbow macaroni , um , cooked to just lightly under al dente .

Um , most packages that's gonna be about 9 to 10 minutes , but read the instructions and go a minute , minute less .

Um , now all we're gonna do is just pour this right in .

I'm sorry .

And then we'll mix it up .

We're just mixing this up to get it combined .

So we get some good cheesy goodness all the way through .

Right .

I said that's a good mix to it .

Start with our remaining shreds and there you go .

So this is nicely tapped .

Don't be afraid to get in here and get a little bit dirty two hours on high and then you'll have some really good slow cooker mac and cheese .

You can go four hours on slow if you have the time and you could then leave it on warm from there .

So see , see you in two hours .

So it's been two hours .

Let's check it out and see how we're looking .

Looks good , nice and melted down .

Put a spoon in there , held in there .

That looks good and cheesy .

There you go .

Nice and easy , slow cooker , macaroni and cheese .

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