Incredibly Addicting Fried Mac & Cheese Bites

Hi guys , you are not gonna believe what I'm making today .

It's so fun .

It's fried macaroni and cheese bites .

So you have to start off by making your macaroni and cheese .

This is one box of elbow macaroni in salted boiling water .

Cook that until it's all dente .

According to the package directions .

It's about six minutes though .

Give that a stir and then start working on your sauce for the sauce .

I have four tablespoons of melted unsalted butter to that .

Add six tablespoons of all purpose flour make in a row , stir it only coat all the flour with butter and cook it until it has sort of a slightly nutty aroma .

30 seconds .

One minute .

This is a very simple beam for this macaroni and cheese , but this one has just a little bit of mustard powder to amp up the flavor .

Three quarters of a teaspoon of dry mustard whisk in four cups of milk start off slowly .

So you can see that I'm adding this gradually because as you add a little bit of milk , it lumps up a bit and you wanna make sure that this mixture is nice and smooth .

Now that all the milk has been added .

You wanna whisk it just a bit more and then bring it to a simmer and it has to cook until it thickens slightly .

And that could take about 8 to 10 minutes .

Check the pasta , make sure it's not over cooking and they are ready right away and now you just need to wait for your best .

Me .

It's nice , thick and smooth and it's simmered for about eight minutes .

Add your cheese .

This is four and three quarters cups of grated cheddar cheese , one more tablespoon of butter .

So it's five tablespoons total stir until the cheese melts and then stir my pasta in .

It might have gotten slightly lumpy just sitting in the sink , but that's ok because it will loosen right up in the mixture .

This is a nine by 13 inch baking dish .

I just line the bottom with a piece of parchment and then sprayed or brushed with oil , pour in your mac and cheese and then just get it into the refrigerator and let it chill .

That'll take a couple hours .

Ok .

This is refrigerated for eight hours and is nice and solid .

You should be able to get it out of the pan to cut it into squares and then you can just turn it out onto your cutting board .

Sometimes you just have to loosen it a little bit with a knife or Bachelet to get a little bit of air in there and it just pops right out , peel off the parchment and then cut it into whatever size you want .

I'm gonna do like one inch squares and we do a couple rows .

Alrighty .

Now you can bread them .

I have four eggs here , whisk your four eggs and here are some panko bread crumbs with a little bit of cayenne pepper in there .

You just whisk that together , you wanna coat each cube in egg first , once they're coated with egg , then you wanna coat them with your panco mixture and then fry them in a little bit of oil .

Golden brown .

Give it a turn when they're golden brown and heated through , they are done .

Drain them on some paper towel just a little bit and then get another batch started because these guys are gonna disappear before you can say mac and cheese bites .

Enjoy .