Kardea Brown's Super-Decadent Mac and Cheese | Delicious Miss Brown | Food Network

If you love cheese as much as we do, Kardea's Super Decadent Mac and Cheese is for you! 🧀😋

Kardea Brown shares down-home, Southern recipes from her South Carolina kitchen. The cook and caterer was born and raised on the sea islands of Charleston, the heart of all Southern cooking, and learned to cook in her grandmother's kitchen. These days, she takes generations of family recipes and makes them her own as she cooks for family and friends at her Sea Island home.

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Super Decadent Mac and Cheese
RECIPE COURTESY OF KARDEA BROWN
Level: Easy
Total: 1 hr
Active: 25 min
Yield: 8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

1/4 cup unsalted butter, plus more for greasing the dish
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 pound elbow macaroni
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup heavy cream, plus more if needed
4 ounces cream cheese
One 16-ounce block sharp Cheddar, shredded
1 1/2 cups extra-sharp Cheddar, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sour cream

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9- by 13-inch baking dish with butter.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add the macaroni and cook, stirring occasionally, until al dente, about 7 minutes. Strain in a colander, run cold water over the pasta and set aside.

Using the same pot the macaroni was cooked in, melt the 1/4 cup butter over medium heat, add the flour and whisk until smooth. While whisking constantly, slowly add the milk and then the cream.
Bring to a simmer, add the cream cheese and the shredded Cheddar except for 1/2 cup and stir until melted. Stir in the granulated garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Remove the cheese sauce from the heat and stir in the macaroni. Season with salt and pepper.

Whisk together the eggs and sour cream in a small bowl and then fold into the macaroni and cheese. Spread the mixture into the prepared baking dish, fold in the cubed Cheddar and top with the reserved 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar. Bake until the top just begins to brown, about 20 minutes.
Loosely cover with foil and bake 10 to 15 minutes more.

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Kardea Brown's Super Decadent Mac and Cheese | Delicious Miss Brown | Food Network

[JennnSaidWhat]

Love that she’s a classically trained chef but gives us the ease of a home cook! She’s very warm and endearing ❤️

[redsoxfanrob]

I love watching her cook. She is amazing AND Charleston rocks!

[kimee]

Basic ingredients....sometimes you just gotta go back to the basics. Mac & cheese can be costly when you start making 7 cheese mac & cheese. I love sharp & extra sharp. This really looks good too. I looove watching her cooking show & the fact that not only is she cooking good food, she ALWAYS incorporates her heritage with interesting history facts.

[wayneridgle]

I'll just say that I prepare this Mac and cheese today; I secured "Father-of-the-year" award for my efforts!!!😃😃😃

[barbroberts]

Proof you can't have too much cheese. Looks amazing. God bless you.

[FaytLinegod]

She's so warm, natural and inviting.

[lisaj]

I've done a lot of Mac and cheese recipes that I've found online and THIS ONE is the best. Thank you Kardea!

[jaleesatrevelyan]

I love her and her cooking show. She makes AMAZING food!!!!

[sandyd]

I just tried your recipe and it was a hit. I also added the cream cheese, that took it to another level. It did not dry up at all. They did talked about me but in a good way. This recipe will be a keeper. Thanks.

[eric_d]

Love the fact that this is "pure" Mac and Cheese. No smoked Gouda or any other "foo-foo" nonsense. we never used egg or cream cheese in ours, and we always added bread crumbs on top to make a nice crust. Love how it's so nice and thick when done, NO hint of runniness at all. Really takes me back to childhood Mac and Cheese, the best ! Thanks

[RH-wjrz]

I love Kardea…”They’ll talk about you”. What a hoot and a great presenter!

[carolbenson]

I'm addicted to this cook and everything she makes!!

[MsDee]

Now this is very similar to the one my grandmother passed down to me ... girl you gon make me cook this tomorrow 😋 ... remember to stay safe and stay blessed

[ucjjyxk]

Love watching her cooking show on Sunday morning

[msluv]

I love watching Kardea cook. I wish I could actually taste her delicious food. This mac n cheese really looks scrumptious😉

[Ann]

I tried this recipe for the first time for our Christmas dinner this year and me and my family loved it. It’s actually better than my mom’s(sorry mommy), but it was great. The best Mac n cheese I have ever had. Did everything exactly like you said except for the cream cheese. THANK YOU… so much for the upload. Was definitely worth watching and trying. Happy Holidays to everyone

[kkingmusic]

Finally I don’t understand why this is the first time I’m seeing her make Mac and cheese she’s a southern cook?!!!

[mdc]

I love watching cooking shows & recipes shared down thru the ages. There is a Southern account of cooks trained by French chefs who cooked for America's first governors/Presidents. Although the history of the South is tainted with a history of gloomy times, the cooking was at times glorious. A Mac & cheese recipe twist included boiling the macaroni elbows in milk. This added to elevating the casserole's creamy texture & flavor...Many demonstrations of ingenuity in the kitchen.

[anyal]

I love this recipe and this reminds me of my mother's recipe. So delicious. I truly enjoy this show. Yes I'm Representing from South Carolina as well!!🤩💖😍💖

[nlp]

Simple recipe made to appear even simpler with Kardea Brown. Thanks 😊.