#INSTANT POT EASY MACARONI AND CHEESE MAC#

If you choose to double this recipe, multiply all ingredients, but keep the cook time the same! You can certainly fit two boxes of Kraft mac and cheese in the Instant Pot, if you’re using a conventional 6-quart one. This recipe has been tested for one box of macaroni and cheese, therefore I cannot guarantee similar results for a double batch. Some of my readers have doubled this recipe, but I do not recommend adding more than 2 boxes. Also, anyone who might be elderly or weak (from back surgery or pregnancy, for example) and can’t lift a pot of boiling water to drain in a colander would love this approach. I think this is a good method for anyone using their Instant Pot in close quarters. If I was going to make Kraft mac and cheese in an Instant Pot, I wanted it to be extra easy. There are plenty of recipes out there that require you to drain the water after pressure cooking, but that idea really didn’t appeal to me. Thus, I’m confident in this no-drain pasta-to-water ratio. I tested this recipe so many ways to ensure this was a one pot, NO-DRAIN recipe. When you’re making boxed mac and cheese in the Instant Pot, then, that starch actually just helps to make things creamier. It’s a trick chefs use to thicken their sauces. In fact, when I make my pasta sauces, I save a little of the starchy pasta water to add to the sauce. When you make noodles (or, in this case, Kraft mac and cheese with the included little elbow macaroni) in an Instant Pot, those noodles are going to retain more starch than they would have if you’d boiled them.A little starch is ok. Therefore, the taste and texture is simply going to be different. The cooking chemistry is completely different for boiling a pot of noodles vs. (You can make my Instant Pot Salt Potatoes and then air fry them for a pretty dang good similar dish, though!) It’s still delicious, but it’s just not quite the same. Have you ever made a “ baked potato” in the microwave or Instant Pot? Sure, it gets cooked and it gets the job done - and it’s quite good.īUT, it’s not going to be 100% the same as slathering it in olive oil with a nice coating of coarse salt and baking for an hour to get nice and fluffy inside while it gets crispy and flaky on the outside. Just like the microwave, it cooks things in a fraction of the time a traditional method would take, but some things may turn out slightly different. I sound like a broken record when I say this, but the Instant Pot is a shortcut.

However, with the Kraft mac and cheese, it works. Pasta is one of those things that can be quite controversial within the Instant Pot community - personally, I tend to prefer to cook it conventionally.

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#INSTANT POT EASY MACARONI AND CHEESE FREE#

Dairy Free Instant Pot Coconut Rice Pudding.Instant Pot Chicken Legs from Fresh or Frozen.That’s why I titled this recipe Instant Pot EASY MAC, since that’s what it tastes like. That’s because Easy Mac is made with the same concept as pressure cooking: The noodles and water start together cold, and they get microwaved until the noodles simply absorb the water. It tastes like EASY MAC - the single-serve microwave cups - not like conventional stovetop mac and cheese. This Instant Pot Kraft dinner is one of my family’s favorites. I’ve made a video, to capture the process.KRAFT MAC AND CHEESE > INSTANT POT EASY MAC I just love how quick it seems with the Instant Pot! Of course, if you don’t have an Instant Pot, you could use a slow cooker or another electric pressure cooker, with very similar results. This Instant Pot Mac and Cheese was so simple to throw together. Keep in mind that the sharper or stronger the taste of cheese, the better your Instant Pot Mac and Cheese will be. This specific recipe calls for Colby Jack and Parmesan Cheese. We wanted the best mac & cheese recipe! We wanted homemade! We decided to try it out in the Instant Pot and it turned out great! We were not disappointed by this easy mac & cheese recipe, that’s for sure! We decided this past week, that we had to make an easy mac & cheese recipe, but we knew we didn’t want the cheap, sometimes tasteless boxed version. YES! I’m not sure why I don’t make it more often, really, because in the Instant Pot, Macaroni & Cheese is so easy! Probably just about as easy as it is to make the boxed version! Can you make Mac and Cheese in the Instant Pot? One of my kids’ favorite side dishes that we eat, when we go to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving dinner each year, is her homemade macaroni and cheese.

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