BUTTERMILK MACARONI AND CHEESE
This buttermilk macaroni and cheese recipe will quickly become a favorite. This is a super easy recipe for macaroni and cheese. I grew up eating macaroni and cheese baked so of course, it’s my favorite. I know so many people enjoy a more creamy stovetop style but for me, I love it baked. This recipe was an experiment that turned out great. I now make it for many family gatherings and Sunday dinners. The buttermilk adds to the creaminess and the Gouda cheese and smoked paprika gives it a bit of a smokey flavor. It’s so good!
Ingredients Needed for Buttermilk Macaroni and Cheese:
Elbow macaroni pasta
Shredded sharp cheddar
Shredded Gouda
Buttermilk
Butter
Smoked Paprika
Garlic Powder
Black Pepper
If you like this recipe, then you may also like our macaroni and cheese casserole.
This dish would also be a wonderful addition to any holiday meal. Super easy to make and loaded in flavor. This dish is a little different from a traditional macaroni and cheese. We love to play with ingredients and this one turned out fantastic. Our family loves the baked style macaroni and cheese and this one is now added to our rotation.
You probably won’t be able to find shredded gouda, so you will need to shred it yourself. Gouda is a great cheese and it taste great in this dish.
Are you reading our digital magazine, Front Porch Life? It’s full of great new recipes, country living, fantastic people, southern charm, cooking tips and so much more. We send it directly to your email so you can start reading, cooking, and relaxing immediately! Join 1000’s of others today and start enjoying our magazine!
Buttermilk Macaroni and Cheese
Ingredients
- 16 ounces elbow macaroni
- 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 2 cups shredded gouda cheese
- 3 teaspoons of butter
- 2 cups of buttermilk
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Cook pasta according to directions on the package and drain. Spray a 2 quart baking dish with cooking spray. Mix macaroni noodles, 1 cup of sharp cheddar cheese, 1 cup of gouda cheese, butter and seasonings together in a bowl.
- Pour into baking dish. Pour buttermilk over top of macaroni and stir. Top with remaining cheese. Cover and bake for 20 minutes. Then uncover and bake another 10 minutes.
Notes
Don’t forget to pin our Buttermilk Macaroni and Cheese:
Follow us on Instagram.
Follow us on Pinterest.
© The Southern Lady Cooks photos and text – All rights reserved. No copying, posting on other sites, or other uses allowed without the written permission of the copyright holder.
This is my new favorite macaroni and cheese recipe! The flavor was great, the combination of sharp cheddar and Gouda cheese was a winner! The seasonings really work well.
YAY! Thank you so much for letting us know.
I love this recipe. I used four bricks of cheese. Two of each. Is this correct? I grated all of my cheese. Each brick was 8oz’s.
I’m sure it was great, usually an 8 ounce block of cheese shredded will be more than 2 cups. So you probably just had extra cheese.
This was my second time making it. It was better the first time. I was over thinking about the amount of cheese. Thank you for your help. Have a wonderful day
Hi! Can’t wait to try this. I believe the buttermilk will make it a fantastic dish! Question though; do you think this would cook properly in a slow cooker, instead of the oven?
Thanks! Just love your recipes!
I think you could cook it in the slow cooker, I would suggest stirring it some throughout the process.
Made this tonight, if could use a little more Paprika and salt. Still tasted a little bland, then added some hot sauce. Much better. Great bones of a recipe, will make it again.
Hi I’m attempting on this recipe later and wanted to know if I can double it as I need a larger amount for a gathering ? What size aluminum pan would work for this ?
You could easily double it and honestly whatever pan it will fit in, just make sure it not spread to thin in the pan, because it will cook faster.
Seeing as this recipe was a hit the first go around I’m making it for BBQ tomorrow. It’s delicious.
Walmart sells a shredded Gouda & cheddar cheese mix under their brand.
Ladies! Tasting all these wonderful recipes is becoming a problem for my waistline! This baked macaroni is the best I have ever made or eaten. Thank you!
YAY! We are so thrilled to hear this was a big hit. We will be making it next week for Thanksgiving. Our family loves it too.
Great flavor, easy, keeper recipe. My daughter is a snob on macaroni and cheese loves the recipe. I also have tried with a variety of different cheese and always great. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
This is my first comment to all your great recipes that I have made. Don’t ever buy prepackaged shredded cheese. Read the contents! It is has cellulose (wood) or other different chemicals in it to keep the cheese from clumping and becoming difficult to use. Sure it takes a bit more time to shred it yourself, but there’s no nutrition in the human body for wood or other strange chemicals. The fresh cheese tastes better anyway. I am a 86 year old male who loves to cock and still trying new recipes around here. So many recipes and so little time! Bon apettie…
This is a wonderful recipe. I’ve made it twice and the second time I added diced ham and some leftover Velveta cheese that I had. Even better.
Thanks for the great recipe.
Gary
You are very welcome, so glad you enjoyed it!
Is it supposed to have egg or flour in it?
No.
I have got to try this next week when I get more buttermilk. I keep it for my cornbread & biscuits. This will be our first baked macaroni and cheese and the pictures look amazing.
Thanks so much for sharing all your wonderful recipes.
Also I’m really enjoying receiving the emails with all the great recipes.
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much! We hope you enjoy it!
Great flavour, but the cheese sort of curdled on us instead of becoming creamy.
Did you use packaged pre-shredded cheese or shred your own?
I added some leftover smoked chicken, and it was delicious! I now have neighbors asking me to make it for them!!! Thanks for the recipe
I just made this macaroni and cheese, delicious! I’m so glad I found your site! I have tried several recipes with good results. Cooking and baking are therapeutic for me but the tasting has also been great.
Yay!! So glad you are enjoying our recipes. Thank you for the kind comment!
Oh my..this was wonderful! I always love trying new recipes and this one is definitely a keeper! If you love baked macaroni and cheese..give this one a try!
Followed the recipe to exact instructions. The end result was lousy. None of the cheese stuck to the macaroni. I am accustomed to a recipe that coats the macaroni with the cheese.
This recipe has four cups of cheese in it. If the cheese didn’t stick to the macaroni, I’m curious as to what it stuck to? As you can see from the photos on this post, the cheese is stuck to the macaroni. So Im not sure where you went wrong. This is baked macaroni and cheese, not stovetop. Baked macaroni and cheese has a completely different texture so if you’re wanting a creamy texture you wouldn’t like baked macaroni and cheese. As always not everyone can make every recipe and not every recipe is for everyone. Sorry, this one wasn’t to your liking.
Don’t rinse the pasta. Rinsing removes the starch but we want the starch to help the cheese stick to the noodles. Rinsing also cools the pasta down and we don’t want that.
Hi! Nowhere in this recipe do we say to rinse the pasta? I’ve never rinsed my pasta when making macaroni and cheese. Thanks!
I wonder if I can use this recipe, but steel from another one of your mac & cheese recipes? using cheese crackers?
Thanks
Sure! That topping would be a great addition!
Can you freeze this? Also, how many days ahead can you make this to keep in the fridge?
I have never frozen macaroni and cheese so I can’t advise. It will keep for several days in the refrigerator. Thanks!
This dish is sooo good! I wanted to switch up my regular recipe, so glad I found this one. So creamy and delicious. I love all your recipes.