Mac 'n cheese just got better with yummy bacon and the ease of the slow cooker.
More About This Recipe
- Whether you make your mac and cheese on the stovetop or in the slow cooker, the end goal is a seriously cheesy, gooey, smooth sauce. This can’t be achieved by just melting cheese and adding it to pasta—to get the perfect mac and cheese sauce, you’ll need to add a few ingredients. Some recipes call for a béchamel sauce—this is basically a combination of a white roux and milk. This gets combined with the cheese and melts into a creamy sauce. Other recipes, like this slow-cooker mac and cheese recipe, call for evaporated milk instead. Evaporated milk combined with cheese yields a deliciously gooey, creamy sauce without the added work of making the béchamel sauce. After you try this slow-cooker version, try experimenting with your favorite way to prepare macaroni and cheese sauce by trying a handful of our delicious mac and cheese recipes
Slow-Cooker Bacon Topped Mac and Cheese
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 2 hr 25 min
- Ingredients 10
- Servings 6
Ingredients
- 3 cups uncooked elbow macaroni (about 12 oz)
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, cut into pieces
- 1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk
- 1 1/2 cups half-and-half
- 3 cups shredded mild Cheddar cheese (12 oz)
- 8 oz (half of 16-oz loaf) prepared cheese product, cut into cubes
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup chopped packaged precooked bacon (about 8 slices from 2.1-oz package)
Instructions
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Step1Spray 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Cook and drain macaroni as directed on package, using minimum cook time. Place macaroni in slow cooker; immediately add butter and stir until melted.
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Step2Add evaporated milk, half-and-half, 2 1/2 cups of the Cheddar cheese, the cubed cheese, mustard, salt and pepper; stir to blend well.
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Step3Cover; cook on Low heat setting 2 to 3 hours, stirring once halfway through cooking time. During last 15 minutes of cooking, sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese and the bacon.
Nutrition
850
Calories
50g
Total Fat
39g
Protein
62g
Total Carbohydrate
14g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 850
- Calories from Fat
- 450
- Total Fat
- 50g
- 77%
- Saturated Fat
- 29g
- 147%
- Trans Fat
- 1 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 155mg
- 51%
- Sodium
- 1670mg
- 70%
- Potassium
- 580mg
- 17%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 62g
- 21%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 11%
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 39g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 35%
- 35%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 70%
- 70%
- Iron
- 15%
- 15%
Exchanges:
3 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 1 Low-Fat Milk; 1/2 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 2 High-Fat Meat; 4 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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