

The product is prepared by cooking the pasta and adding the cheese powder along with butter (or margarine) and milk. The product's innovation, at the time of the Great Depression, was to conveniently market nonperishable dried macaroni noodles together with a processed cheese powder. The product by Kraft has developed into many flavour variations and formulations, including Easy Mac (a product that has since been renamed Mac & Cheese Dinner Cups), a single-serving product designed specifically for microwave ovens. Commercially, the line has evolved, with deluxe varieties marketed with liquid processed cheese, as well as microwavable frozen mac-and-cheese meals. There are now many similar products, including private label, of nonperishable boxed macaroni and cheese. The brand is popular with Canadians, who consume 55% more boxes per capita than Americans. It was introduced under the Kraft Dinner name simultaneously in both Canada and the U.S. It is made by Kraft Foods Group (or parent company Mondelez internationally) and traditionally cardboard-boxed with dried macaroni pasta and a packet of orange processed cheese powder. Kraft Dinner ( KD) in Canada, Kraft Mac & Cheese in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, Cheesey Pasta in the United Kingdom and internationally is a nonperishable, packaged macaroni and cheese product. The cheese shreds are so fine, they’ll melt into your noodles really quickly.A bowl of original recipe (aka "original flavour")

You’ll want about a pound just for the cheese sauce, and you’ll also want a cup or two of finely grated cheese for piling on top at the end (I use a microplane grater for mine). Speaking of cheese, you’ll need a LOT of it for this recipe. Don’t worry! The hot cheese sauce will warm up the pasta later. If you aren’t finishing the macaroni and cheese right away, rinse the pasta with cold water to stop the cooking process and make sure the noodles don’t stick together. Cook the pasta in salted water and then drain it when it’s al dente. Just don’t use any long spaghetti-like noodles, and you’ll be good. If there isn’t a location near you, or you just want to try making it at home, here’s my go-to method for making a super-cheesy batch of creamy mac and cheese every time.įor starters, you’ll need pasta! I like just plain elbow macaroni, but lots of smaller pasta shapes would work.

Noodles & Company™ is known for mastering flavorful pasta dishes from all over the world, so for simple, classic mac and cheese to be one of their most famous menu items tells you there is something truly special about that bowl of pasta. A homemade version of the famously cheesy macaroni dish.
