With attention to a few tips it’s not hard to master, and a good white sauce really will make your mac and cheese beautifully smooth and creamy. Based on the 20 recipes I reviewed you have a few good options available to you.īut if you’re avoiding flour because you’ve previously struggled with making your cheese sauce, I’d encourage you to read on. If you need to avoid flour for dietary reasons, then you should skip down to the section on making macaroni and cheese without flour. Why do you want mac and cheese without flour? But before you do, I have a question for you. That’s not to say you can’t make mac and cheese without flour. And for the majority of these recipes, that ingredient is flour. Whichever approach you take, there’s always an ingredient included who’s role is to thicken the sauce.

And these different methods each make multiple appearances across the recipes I reviewed (which are listed at the bottom of the page). And then there’s a third approach, which is a combination of the two. You can make it on the stovetop, or you can make it in the oven. There are two fundamentally different approaches to homemade mac and cheese. Read on to discover how to make mac and cheese without flour, but also how to make a better roux. It definitely was good and I would certainly make it again.Everyone loves mac & cheese, but making a roux (with flour) takes time and can be a pain to get right. When I had initially taken it out after the 45 min the first time, it was very creamy and would have been ready to go. So if I had to do it over again, I would do the same except cook it in the oven closer to serving time, check on it after 15 min or so to add in the shredded cheese and go from there.

It was a little thick, but still tasted very good. So, I let it sit again and about an hour before the party, put it in the roaster, added the shredded cheese and put it on warm. I was anticipating it taking much longer so unfortunately, it was way earlier than when I was going to serve it. I cooked it at 350 and went to stir it after 45 min and it was cooked through already. (Thankful we have an extra fridge we can use for stuff like this) The day I was cooking it, I pulled it out of the refrigerator in the morning to start getting it to room temp. I took the roaster pan out of the freezer and put it in the refrigerator 3 days before I was cooking it to start to thaw it. I put the prepared mac and cheese (minus the shredded cheese) in the roaster pan and put that in the freezer. This recipe worked well freezing, thawing and cooking in the oven/roaster.

Southern mac and cheese roux