Spicy Mac and Cheese

This Spicy Mac and Cheese look is an casual stove-top look with tons of footwear from cayenne capsicum and capsicum jack cheese. It has each the things you emotion astir mac and cheese, positive immoderate heat.

Ultra Creamy and Cheesy

The basal for the mac and food is simply a bechamel condiment which is made from butter, flour, and milk. It forms a nice, creamy basal for the food sauce. Added to the bechamel condiment are 2 types of cheese: Pepper Jack food and cheddar food successful adjacent proportions. The Pepper Jack adds immoderate vigor and melts good and cheddar food is practically a indispensable for mac and food recipes.

Turn Up The Heat

A fractional spoon of cayenne pepper combined with 1 1/2 cups of shredded Pepper Jack food adds rather a footwear to this mac and cheese. If you privation adjacent much heat, service with TABASCO Hot Sauce oregon Crystal Hot Sauce. They are 2 of my favs.

Recommended Equipment

• Large Pasta Pot– this Stainless Steel Pasta Pot with straining lid makes it ace casual to drain the pasta.
• Whisk– I emotion to usage a Balloon Whisk.
• Box Grater– Mac and food ever sensation champion if you shred your ain food with a grater.

Add More Flavor

This mac and food tastes large with immoderate browned andouille sausage oregon kielbasa sausage mixed in.

Spicy Mac and Cheese Recipe Tips

I highly urge grating your ain food for this look alternatively than buying preshredded. Not lone volition it person amended flavor, it volition melt amended too.

Be definite to brackish the h2o erstwhile you navigator the pasta and don’t overcook the pasta oregon your mac and food volition person a mushy texture.

Add the food successful batches and fto it melt earlier adding much cheese. This volition effect successful a creaseless food sauce, not a grainy one.

Pasta Substitutions

Large elbow pasta is my preferred pasta signifier for this look but you tin usage regular elbow macaroni, wagon wheels, penne, oregon cavatappi.

Storage

Leftovers volition support for 3 days successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator. If it gets a small dry, adhd a splash of beverage earlier reheating successful th microwave.

More Mac and Cheese Recipes

• Super Creamy Mac and Cheese
• Nacho Mac and Cheese
• Fried Mac and Cheese
• Chicken Bacon & Ranch Mac and Cheese
• Jalapeno Popper Mac and Cheese
• Bourbon and Bacon Mac and Cheese

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Spicy Mac and Cheese

This Spicy Mac and Cheese look is an casual stove-top look with tons of footwear from cayenne capsicum and capsicum jack cheese. It has each the things you emotion astir mac and cheese, positive immoderate heat.

Course Main Dish, Side Dish

Cuisine Southern

Keyword pasta, spicy

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Calories 574kcal

Equipment

• Pasta Pot
• box grater

Ingredients

• 12 ounces large elbow pasta
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 cups whole milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 1/2 cups shredded crisp cheddar cheese
• 1 1/2 cups shredded Pepper Jack cheese
• hot sauce, for srving

Instructions

• Cook pasta successful ample cookware of salted h2o according to bundle directions. Drain.
• Melt food implicit mean vigor successful a ample skillet.

  Add flour and navigator and disturbance for 2 minutes.
• Gradually whisk successful beverage and past adhd salt, pepper, adust mustard and cayenne pepper.

  Simmer for a fewer minutes to thicken, but bash not boil.
• Turn vigor to debased and disturbance successful food until melted.

  Stir successful pasta.
• Serve with blistery sauce.

Nutrition

Calories: 574kcal

The station Spicy Mac and Cheese appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.