This New Spin on Mac and Cheese Will Become Your New Favorite Side Dish

There are so many ways to change up macaroni and cheese.
This New Spin on Mac and Cheese Will Become Your New Favorite Side Dish
Fans of creamy, tangy pimento cheese love it on sandwiches. We wanted it with macaroni. America's Test Kitchen/TNS
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Ready for a new take on mac and cheese? We’ve done all the work, so all you have to do is follow this easy recipe.

Folding store-bought pimento cheese into our usual macaroni and cheese recipe didn’t work well here; the sauce separated into pools of grease and clumps of cheese. Instead, we made a flavored béchamel, a thickened milk sauce, to help us control the amount of fat in the sauce and prevent the sauce from breaking.

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