Sharing a favorite mac and cheese recipe today! My Three Cheese Sausage Mac and Cheese is a cheese lovers dream. Dinner perfection.
Mac and Cheese
For those of you who asked for my Three Cheese and Sausage Homemade Mac and Cheese recipe from Instagram, here you go!! This was one of those days where I wasn’t planning on sharing the recipe, but I better plan on it if I share the photo on Instagram 🙂 You’ll just have to forgive the lack of step by step photos for these.
This is a great mac and cheese that serves a crowd or large family. If you’ve got a small family then it’s great for leftovers. It’s full of great cheesy flavor with bits of Italian Sausage throughout. If you’ve never made a roux before you can see some step by step photos from my Cheesy Chicken and Rice Skillet Bake. It’s very easy so no worries.
How To Make Homemade Mac and Cheese
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and lightly spray a 9×13 inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Brown sausage until cooked and crumbled. Drain if necessary and set aside. Cook pasta according to package directions, drain water and run under cool water. Set pasta aside.
- Melt butter in a large dutch oven or pot over medium heat. Whisk in flour, salt and pepper until thick and bubbly. Slowly whisk in milk. Increase heat to medium high and keep whisking until milk becomes nice and thick. Once thick, reduce heat to low and stir in mozzarella and cheddar cheese until smooth and creamy. Stir in sausage and cooked pasta. Transfer to prepared baking dish and top with shredded Gouda cheese. Bake for 20-25 minutes until cheese is melted and hot. Serve warm.
Three Cheese Sausage Mac and Cheese
Ingredients
- 1 pound Italian Sausage
- 1 lb dry elbow noodles
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 1/2 teaspoons hot sauce such as Tapatio or Tabasco
- 2 cups shredded Gouda Cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and lightly spray a 9×13 inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Brown sausage until cooked and crumbled. Drain if necessary and set aside. Cook pasta according to package directions, drain water and run under cool water. Set pasta aside.
- Melt butter in a large dutch oven or pot over medium heat. Whisk in flour, salt and pepper until thick and bubbly. Slowly whisk in milk. Increase heat to medium high and keep whisking until milk becomes nice and thick. Once thick, reduce heat to low and stir in mozzarella and cheddar cheese until smooth and creamy. Stir in sausage and cooked pasta. Transfer to prepared baking dish and top with shredded Gouda cheese. Bake for 20-25 minutes until cheese is melted and hot. Serve warm.
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Yummy!!
WOW! This is so yummy! I tried this with some turkey Italian sausage and my sweet husband said that he couldn’t tell the difference. The only mistake I made was the hot sauce. As I was pouring it into the pan I noticed the bottle of hot sauce on the counter. I went back to read the directions and saw that it was not there either 🙂 Next time I will add it into the sauce before the adding the cheese. Let me know if that is not where I should be placing it 🙂
Do think this would work if I made it up a day in advance and just kept it in the frig? It looks so good but wirh working full time and commuting life is so much easier when I can make things in advance.
Thanks for the three cheese and sausage homemade macaroni and cheese recipe. This would be great to have if you were entertaining guests.
Anything with sausage is a win in my book, looks gooey and perfect!
Delicious! I love adding sausage to my baked ziti. Definitely throwing some into my favorite mac n’ cheese next time!
Wow…this looks amazing, Jenny! I’m so glad you decided to share this, even without the step-by-step photos you normally would normally post! 🙂
I like any and all versions of mac and cheese – going to have to try this one 🙂 It looks so good!
Just a question… If we’re not able to eat Italian Sausage because of religious reasons, what’s a good non pork substitute for it?
Love homemade mac and cheese and this recipe looks perfect! Thank you for sharing 🙂
This looks asolutely fabulous!
This looks really great! Fabulous!
OMG! That looks so comforting, Jenny 🙂
YUM!! This looks amazing!
Mac and cheese is my weakness.. I love trying new recipes for it 🙂
Yum!!! If you’d like to health-ify this recipe a bit check out the Baked Pumpkin & Sausage Rigatoni recipe in the September Family Circle issue, very similar to this, but with an added can of pumpkin and less cheese. I just tried it and it was amazing–my husband does NOT like pumpkin and he thought it was pretty good. And since your kids already expect Mac n cheese to be orange, they might not even notice 😉
Wow, I would have never thought to add pumpkin!! Crazy!!
MAMA. MIA.
the cheesiness will END me – i love this!
I am a big fan of leftovers! This one looks great Jenny! Love it 🙂
Me too Carla! My sister said this was even better the second day 🙂
Oh my goodness! Perfect for fall! I’m almost afraid to attempt it, though – since I know I’d want to eat every bite myself! 😉
Yah, it’s quite deadly!!
Yum! Mac and Cheese is my fav and this is an awesome twist! Thanks!
Thanks Jai!!
OMG! I want to crawl up in that bed of ooey gooey cheesy goodness. And I seriously love using ground sausage–yum!
My husband would be all over this!
My hubby would love this one, Jenny!
Omg this looks heavenly 🙂 I love the added flavor of the gouda! Looks delicious!
Oh my heavens — all that wonderful cheese!!! Looks so delicious and comforting. 🙂
Looks yummy! But I don’t see flour listed in the ingredients, how much did you use for the roux? Thanks
I noticed that, too…..I have made roux before and I believe it is generally equal parts butter and flour. So, that would be 8 Tbsp. (which = 1/2 cup) :O)
I edited the recipe early this morning, do you still not see the flour listed?
It’s there.
Hello, comfort food! This would cure any bad day.