How to Make Macaroni and Cheese in a Pressure Cooker
Hi there! Looking for a quick and delicious meal in about 10 minutes? Let’s make macaroni and cheese in a pressure cooker!
You will now have the right recipe for your pressure cooker and never go back to kraft again. My kids were always huge fans of Kraft macaroni and cheese when they were little. But if you really look at the box and all those fake ingredients, it’s really a question of what exactly is in that cheese packet.
You can whip up macaroni and cheese in the pressure cooker in no time at all. Plus your kids will love it even more. Not to mention, so will you.
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Macaroni and Cheese in the Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 1 cup Heavy cream
- 1 tbsp Butter
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 3 cups Shredded cheese Sharp, gouda, mozzarella
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cup Chicken broth or stock
- 3 cups macaroni
Instructions
- Place the macaroni, chicken broth, or stock (we like either or for this recipe), heavy cream, salt, and pepper into the pressure cooker.
- Set to high pressure
- Set for 7 minutes. and let the pot do a Natural Release.
- Remove the lid, directing the steam away from you. Add the butter, milk, and cheeses to the pot and stir. Enjoy your creamy and delicious macaroni and cheese.
Notes
Enjoy!
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I’m curious, how do you “remove from heat” to NPR?
When your meal is finished cooking it naturally goes to NPR. You don’t have to do anything actually but let it run its cycle.
This is my go to recipe for Mac and cheese – the best that I have tried to date and my husband loves it.
That is great to hear Sara!~ We enjoy it too.
This recipe sounds sooo yummy! I love all the pics but do you have a condensed form I can print out. Say 1 or 2 pages instead of 13?
Hi Debbie, I am working on converting all my recipes to a printable card format. I don’t have it yet..but my newer recipes all have it. It’s taking some time to convert.
Could adding shrimp with lobster at the end work for seafood mac and cheese pressure cooker
I would say it will work:) It only needs a minute or two at most.
Debbie,
I am brand new to my Ninja Foodi and your website, so maybe I just don’t know where to find things. I have looked high and low trying to find the amounts of the macaronii and the chicken stock needed for this recipe…Help
Also, will this recipe work as written in the Ninja Foodi?
I am so sorry it wasn’t in there? I am not sure what happened there but I just added it. YES, you can make this the same exact way in the Ninja Foodi. ENjoy.
At the end, how would you use the Mealthy Crisp-Lid to crisp it?
I would add a little more cheese, put the Mealthy CrispLid on and set to 390 degrees for just a few minutes to get the cheese brown and bubbly. You would not have the pressure cooker on at this point, just the lid.
New to this insta pot trend. What is “do a NR”? in the directions? and is this for what size of pot?
Natural release and I used a 6 Qt. Pot. You can do this recipe in any size Pot.
I would top more cheese, on, perhaps a little bread crumbs too. Set Mealthy on top of pot, and set to the highest temperature for about 5 minutes to get bubbly and brown.