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    Home > Blog > Pasta & Noodles > Taleggio Mac and Cheese Topped with Buttery Crackers

    Taleggio Mac and Cheese Topped with Buttery Crackers

    by Teri Lyn Fisher · Published: Dec 3, 2018 · Modified: May 25, 2020

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    Taleggio mac and cheese topped with buttery crackers with a spoon.

    Another day, another glorious mac and cheese recipe. :) Holidays are such a crazy time of year and totally just feels like a tennis game of stress + fun times bouncing back and forth for 2 months straight, doesn’t it?? I feel the same way when it comes to holiday time cooking/baking; I usually mix things up between more complicated ‘impressive’ dishes and desserts, to more simple, cozy, comforting dishes like today’s Taleggio Mac + Cheese Topped with Buttery Crackers! I love this dish so much because it’s a simple stovetop mac and cheese with a super rich and silky cheese sauce that gets topped with crushed buttery crackers and stuck until a broiler for a minute or 2 until it’s perfectly toasted on top and bubbling in all its cheesy glory. So good. I’m usually not one for using ‘fancy’ cheeses in my mac and cheese, just a great melting cheese with nice flavor, but since it’s the holidays we’re stepping things up. Taleggio is a really nice rich and creamy, semisoft Italian cheese with a strong aroma, but mild flavor.

    If you’re looking for a warm and cozy, ‘stick to your ribs’ type of dish, that will take you 30 minutes or less to make, this recipe is definitely for you. Enjoy! xx, Jenny

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    RECIPE BY Teri & Jenny
    Servings: 6

      INGREDIENTS  

    • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
    • 1 pound Cellentani pasta

    silky taleggio cheese sauce

    • 5 ounces evaporated milk
    • 1 egg
    • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon cracked black pepper
    • 8 ounces taleggio cheese, cut into small cubes
    • 1 teaspoon tapioca starch can use cornstarch
    • 1 ½ teaspoon lemon juice

    buttery cracker topping

    • 10 crackers of choice, crushed such as saltines, butter crackers, etc
    • 2 tablespoons salted butter, melted
    • thinly sliced chives, for garnish

      INSTRUCTIONS  

    • Lightly butter a 2 quart baking dish with 1 tablespoon of softened butter. Set aside.
    • Fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil. Add a handful of salt and pasta and boil, stirring occasionally, until pasta is fully cooked. Drain pasta, reserving 3 tablespoons pasta water. Set aside.
    • In a large saucepan combine evaporated milk, pasta water, egg, dry mustard, salt, and pepper and whisk together. In a large mixing bowl combine cheese, starch and lemon juice and toss together.
    • Place saucepan over medium-low heat and whisk together for about 2 minutes. Whisk in small amounts of the cheese mixture at a time, making sure not to add more cheese until the previous addition had been fully incorporated to the sauce.
    • Continue to whisk and add cheese over the low heat until all the cheese has been added and a smooth and creamy sauce forms (make sure not to rush this process or your cheese sauce will not be smooth).
    • Once the sauce has been made, stir in the pasta. Adjust seasonings.
    • Pour mixture into a lightly buttered baking dish.
    • In a small bowl combine crushed crackers and butter. Sprinkle mixture over mac and cheese and broil on high for 1 to 2 minutes or until crackers have toasted and mac and cheese is bubbling.
    • Top mac and cheese with chives and serve.

      NOTES  

    • *Make sure your evaporated milk-egg mixture is still pretty thin (just barely starting to thicken) or your end product will be too thick!
    • *If the sauce seems too thin/loose that’s okay. It’ll thicken as it sits with the pasta.
    • *The lemon juice will help prevent the sauce from getting stringy.

    December 3, 2018 / 9 Comments

    About Teri Lyn Fisher

    Teri Lyn Fisher is half of Spoon Fork Bacon. She is also a food and cosmetics photographer. She is a big fan of hot dogs. #sfbTERI

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    1. Alex

      August 04, 2022 at 3:05 pm

      “Add a handful of salt”

      Reply
      • Jenny Park

        August 04, 2022 at 4:32 pm

        Yes, that’s not a typo. It’s necessary for properly salting pasta water.

        Reply
    2. Bob

      May 03, 2021 at 4:26 pm

      I haven’t tried the taleggio Mac and cheese yet but plan to surprise my wife with this tomorrow night.

      Reply
    3. Kristen

      December 06, 2018 at 10:27 pm

      When is the reserved pasta water added? Thanks! This looks delish!

      Reply
      • Jenny Park

        December 09, 2018 at 4:07 pm

        Ah, i forgot to mention adding it to the cheese sauce, before stirring in the pasta!

        Reply
    4. Areesha Zahid

      December 05, 2018 at 8:44 am

      Looks a tasty I hope taste is Magnificent.

      Reply
    5. Sabrina

      December 04, 2018 at 6:52 pm

      5 stars
      really nice mac and cheese dish with Taleggio, much better than the kind that comes in a box from the grocery store, thank you

      Reply
    6. De

      December 03, 2018 at 12:21 pm

      Look at that cream sauce… YUM!

      Reply
    7. Jess K

      December 03, 2018 at 7:53 am

      Omgosh, this looks and sounds incredible. Never disappointed with your recipes! Pinned!

      Reply

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