
This relates to the lack of flavor addressed in Crime #2.
Don’t be afraid to try fun add-ins: caramelized onions, sun-dried tomatoes, breadcrumb topping, meat, etc. Try browning your butter for a rich, nutty flavor: cook the butter over medium heat, stirring occasionally until it starts to foam and brown flecks form. A few teaspoons of hot sauce add a unique kick that will amp things up without overwhelming the sauce. Onions or shallots – they don’t alter the flavor, they just amp it up. Choose at least one sharp cheese for your cheese blend (see below). Not enough herbs/garlic How to Avoid the Crime:. What’s worse than shoving a forkful of what looks like perfectly creamy and saucy mac into your pie hole, only to find out it has no flavor? It’s like eating food when you’ve got a cold it looks so good, but you can’t taste it. You can always add more pasta in if need be, but once it’s in there, it’s done. Add the pasta to the sauce a little at a time don’t dump it all in at once. Again, this will compensate for any drying while baking. Make the sauce extra creamy like in my Extra-Creamy 4-Cheese Mac. Your mac should be slightly saucier than you’d like so that when it bakes, you compensate for the drying. Oven-baked ones are the most common offenders because the sauce starts out the perfect consistency, but dries out when baked.
Not enough sauce How to Avoid the Crime:.
It doesn’t matter how delicious the sauce you started with was, how many awesome cheeses you used, or what unique ingredients you employed if the sauce is dry and non-existent, your mac and cheese is going to stink. There is nothing, I repeat, nothing worse than a dried out mac. Best Cheeses For Mac And Cheese: Taste The Goodness In Every Bite (2021) Mistake #1 – Dry Mac & Cheese