Student Style Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese

"There are a lot of fancy, complicated, and utterly delicious looking recipes for buffalo chicken mac and cheese. I'm from Buffalo- I've always wanted to try them. On my current schedule with my current budget, it's not happening. This is an easy recipe to throw together, using ingredients I have around most of the time. It's cheap, and a huge improvement over simple box mac and cheese."
 
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Ready In:
50mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
7
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ingredients

  • 2 (411.06 g) box macaroni and cheese mix
  • 2 (708.73 g) can chicken, drained
  • 118.29 ml Frank's red hot sauce (or other hot sauce, I guess. Franks though! Best! I use more than this, I really enjoy it)
  • 236.59 ml cheese, shredded (I prefer cheddar)
  • 78.78 ml bleu cheese salad dressing
  • 2.46 ml chili powder (optional)
  • 118.29 ml breadcrumbs (optional)
  • 78.78 ml parmesan cheese, grated (optional)
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directions

  • Preheat oven to 375.
  • Prepare mac and cheese according to box instructions (I didn't include the ingredients the box might call for, since they're all different).
  • While mac and cheese is cooking, mix chicken with hot sauce and blue cheese. I broke up the bigger chunks of chicken to make it more consistent, but that's up to you.
  • In a 9x12 dish, pour about half the mac and cheese.
  • Add the chicken/hot sauce/blue cheese in another layer, and cover with the rest of the mac and cheese.
  • Add about half of the shredded cheese and mix a bit, so the layers aren't precise but still somewhat there.
  • Sprinkle the rest of the shredded cheese on top.
  • Bake for about 20 minutes.
  • Optionally, sprinkle the remaining ingredients (y'know, the optional ones) on top. (Now, I'm no expert. I've made this once and I did this part half way through cooking, but I suppose I could've done it at the beginning).
  • Bake for another 20 minutes or so. I chose arbitrarily, when it seemed completely heated through.
  • Serve! I served it with salad, because it's definitely pretty heavy with all that cheese and pasta. Enjoy.

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Hey! I'm a college student, majoring in both mechanical engineering and computer science. I've been cooking simple stuff at home for as long as I remember, but now that I'm at school, I've been trying to expand my horizons a bit. I decided to not get a meal plan this year, so I've really had to practice being self-sufficient. Luckily, I learn quickly and thoroughly enjoy cooking. I'm super proud of myself- I made my family's Thanksgiving turkey this year, and it turned out great! I figure that means I'm getting better at this cooking business.
 
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