So I had the bright idea to take a bigger plastic bowl and mix the ingredients in there. Mix with the pasta and cheese sauce.Īs my air fryer baking pan was quite small, I didn’t want to risk mixing my ingredients in it and spilling everything all over the place (and getting told off by my wife!!). Cook for 1 minute and add 3 tablespoons of the flour, stirring well until the flour and bacon fat take on a thick, pasty consistency. I finely chopped the pancetta ready to mix in with the other ingredients. In a frying pan, cook the bacon until it begins to crisp. Better still, you could opt for an oven style air fryer that gives you more real estate to slip an oven proof Pyrex dish into.įor more information on this new type of air fryer, you can take a look at this popular model by clicking the image below and going to take a look over at Amazon. If you are cooking for two people this arrangement is fine, however if you want to cook for a family you will need a much larger bucket style air fryer. If you don’t know what I am talking about, go view this very similar product on Amazon by clicking the image below. As there is sauce involved, you need something like this to hold everything together. Air fry for 8-10 minutes until light and golden on the outside. Remove from the heat, add the cheeses, and stir until melted and smooth season. Cook until the sauce thickens, about 2 minutes. I used the baking pan that came with my air fryer to make the mac and cheese. Place the macaroni and cheese balls into your air fryer basket in a single layer, making sure they don’t touch. Whisk the warmed milk into the flour mixture, working out any lumps. The Philips air fryer that I am using is relatively small, so I was only able to cook enough for 2 people (3 at a stretch).

Problems I had when cooking Mac and Cheese in my air fryer! If you want to replace this with dry pasta, you should half cook the pasta first in a pan of boiling water before you follow the directions in this recipe. This is what influenced me to make a carbonara inspired macaroni cheese dish this time! The pasta I bought was fresh pasta, something that suits the quick cook times of the air fryer. The highlights were the fact I was able to snag some nice mature smoked cheese along with some pancetta.

Air fried mac and cheese