Oven baked mac n' cheese. I used a little more colby-jack cheese than noted, and reserved a little handful to top the macaroni before going into the oven. Cook macaroni according to package directions for al dente; drain. In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta according to package instructions; drain well.

A creamy cheese sauce tops pasta in this homemade, kid-pleasing baked macaroni and cheese recipe sprinkled with breadcrumbs.. Cook your pasta to slightly less than al dente, about one minute shy is perfect. The reason is that this is baked mac and cheese so the pasta will continue to cook in the homemade cheese sauce in the oven. You can have Oven baked mac n' cheese using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Oven baked mac n' cheese

You need of Milk.
You need of Velveeta cheese.
Prepare of Elbow macaroni.
It's of Salt.
Prepare of Pepper.

I used elbow pasta but really, any tubular past will work. This mac and cheese recipe starts with a roux. In a large pot of boiling, salted water cook the pasta to al dente. While the pasta is cooking, in a separate pot, melt the butter.

Oven baked mac n' cheese step by step

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
While oven is preheating boil a pan of water and sprinkle with salt. Once the water is boiling put in about two and a half cups of uncooked macaroni. Cook until macaroni is tender. Drain the water from the macaroni..
Prepare your 9×13 baking pan by spraying with non stick cooking spray. Then pour your noodles in the pan making it even. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir well. Depending how gooey you like your mac n' cheese begin cutting cubes of velveeta and mixing it with the macaroni. Put in about a half cup of milk and mix well..
Bake for about 15 minutes and take the dish out. Stir your macaroni and cut up more cheese if desired. Place back in oven and cook for an additional 10 minutes until melted. Enjoy!.

Prepare Mac n Cheese dinner as directed on package. Combine the melted butter and cracker crumbs and sprinkle over the top. When I got back to Texas I made it for my mom. This is now her favorite baked macaroni and cheese. She begs me to make it when I come to visit.