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This comforting dish is simple to make with just a few steps. In order to make this vegan mac and cheese you will need the following ingredients: Serve with a fresh salad or veggies for a nutritious family meal that will be requested over and over again! Ingredients Using a variety of whole food ingredients to recreate the traditionally heavy comfort food not only avoids a food coma, but it is healthier too. So having this to stuff my face with and not endure the pain after is such a treat! This baked creamy pasta dish reminds me of the indulgent kind I get at a restaurant, that my belly doesn't really love after the fact.

Place in oven and cook for 30 minutes until the sides start to brown and bubble.This vegan baked mac and cheese is restaurant flavor but made with healthy whole foods.

Cook until golden color, then pour on top of pasta. Sprinkle in the rosemary and lemon zest and stir to combine.

Add garlic and let it cook for a minute until it starts to brown, then add bread crumbs with salt and red pepper to taste.

In a small pan or pot, heat olive oil.

Add cheese mixture to pasta and stir to incorporate.

Add cheeses, stirring constantly to combine until the cheese is all melted.

Add milk and chicken broth and bring to a boil, whisking continuously to avoid any crud on the bottom of the pan.

Once melted, add flour, stirring to combine and let cook for one minute.

In a large pan, melt butter with salt and pepper.

Add a bit of olive oil to avoid sticky pasta.

In your largest pot, cook pasta 3-4 minutes less than the directions say (for example, ours said to boil the pasta for 11-12 minues, so I cooked it for 8).

8 oz fresh parmesan, shredded (I used grana padana, a popular cheese here).

1/4 cup chicken broth (or white wine, if you like).

16 oz macaroni pasta (I like to use large sea shells).

With it, some fresh, real cheese and these incredibly flavorful breadcrumbs, you're on your way to delicious macaroni town - and you'll never look back. The key to this dish is a successful roux - that French stovetop miracle that turns butter and flour into excellence. But baked does not have to mean dry (nor, clearly, does it mean healthy). Also, there are so many baked macaroni dishes out there that are just dry and sad. Though I am not a Velveeta hater (again, American), there are just better cheeses out there, and they deserve to have their creamy, saucy day in the sun. You see - a lot of people think you need to buy Velveeta to get achieve velvety-ness. Tested it on so many incredibly willing participants. And now, my macaroni and cheese recipe has achieved perfection. I have bought dozens of pounds of various cheeses.

I've been toying with this recipe for a long time. Macaroni and cheese is not only my favorite food - duh, I'm from the Midwest and am an American - but it is downright amazing.