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This BBQ Pulled Pork Macaroni and Cheese is a meal we eat often in our family. Mac and cheese topped with BBQ pulled pork and topped with melted cheese. 

BBQ Pulled Pork Macaroni and Cheese

So often at your favorite BBQ place, they offer mac and cheese as a side dish to go with your meal.

I always get a pulled pork sandwich and sometimes my side is mac and cheese.

One day when the two mixed I decided why not just throw them together the next time I make mac and cheese?

So I did.

And boy am I glad I did.

Not only is this BBQ Pulled Pork Macaroni and Cheese popular in our family it’s huge on Pinterest as well.

I didn’t plan on putting this up on the blog.

It was just a weeknight meal.

Yes, it’s another mac and cheese recipe.

But the teens eat mac and cheese so we make a lot of it in a lot of different ways.

Apparently, people want to see those ways according to Instagram when I posted it and the emails that I got asking if I was going to share the recipe.

So I need to get better about realizing that my weekday meals are probably interesting to some people.

Because we are all searching for family meals that everyone will eat.

BBQ Pulled Pork Macaroni and Cheese

This is big and it does feed a lot of people.

Or one teenage boy. 🙂

Seriously, where do teenage boys put it all?

It feeds four of us and still had half a pan for my husband to take to work so that his co-workers can love me on Valentine’s Day as well. 🙂

There really isn’t much to say about this.

It’s BBQ pulled pork which in itself is awesome.

I use the crockpot method of doing the pulled pork.

It’s the easiest way and I’m lazy. 🙂

BBQ Pulled Pork Macaroni and Cheese

It’s pasta.

You can choose whatever shape pasta you want but I chose spirals.

I find that the cheese clings to the spiral shape nicely.

Then of course comes the cheese.

That is not only in the macaroni and cheese of course.

But on top of the whole dish as well.

Your pants hate me but your tummy and taste buds love me.

Last but not least…it’s a great time to order my cookbook. 😀

Want more Mac and Cheese recipes?

Try these:

Alpine Dijon Macaroni and Cheese

Pimento Cheese Mac and Cheese

Gouda and Lobster Mac and Cheese

Cougar Gold Mac and Cheese

Crab Macaroni and Cheese

BBQ Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese

BBQ Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese

Ingredients

  • 16 ounces prepared pulled pork (I did mine in the crock pot)
  • 1 cup BBQ sauce (we used Sweet Baby Ray’s)
  • 1 pound of pasta (your choice of shape but keep them short…we went spiral)
  • 5 cups three cheese blend (mine was American, Cheddar, and Colby), divided
  • 4 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • ¼ cup Panko bread crumbs
  • 2 TBSP all-purpose flour
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Boil up some water in a large stock pot and throw in your pasta and cook it until it’s a dente.
  2. Drain out the water and scrap up the bits that stick to the bottom of the pan.
  3. Put the drained pasta back into the stock pan and add the heavy cream and cream cheese.
  4. Mix until cream cheese melts.
  5. Add the flour and Panko and stir to incorporate.
  6. Add 4 cups of the cheese and try to distribute as evenly as possible.
  7. Pour into a 9x13-inch glass pan that has been coated with oil or butter.
  8. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes.
  9. While baking heat the pulled pork up and add the BBQ sauce.
  10. Remove mac and cheese from oven.
  11. Add the warm BBQ pulled pork to the top of the mac and cheese.
  12. Then sprinkle the remaining 1 cup of cheese on top of the pork.
  13. Put back into oven for another 10 minutes.
  14. Eat and enjoy.
© Peabody
BBQ Pulled Pork Macaroni and Cheese

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Comments

  3. I am drooling on my keyboard right now. Barbecue sauce runs through my veins, and toss in pulled pork AND cheese AND pasta, and you are mjy tastebuds’ new BFF. 🙂

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  11. oh my stars…no you didn’t. this looks so amazing I gotta go hit up Kroger right quick this is where it’s at. never would have put this together.

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  12. Omg I just used this recipe tonight for my family and they all loved it!!!!!! Amazing recipe! I will be using this again soon!

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  13. I had leftover pork roast and added HEB Better Than Good BBQ Sauce…it was fabulous. I also used about 2 cups of pork and will use 3 cups next time. EASY and so Hearty with a green salad! Thanks!

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  14. always looking for a “better” mac&cheese…this recipe was different to me, no white sauce base. This was sooo easy and sooo good !I was a skeptical about the flour/breadcrumb mixture stirred in but it worked ! I was out of panko so just used plain and used up all my cheese ends. Delicious !!!

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  15. Ohhhh, YUM!!! I have some pulled pork my husband smoked that I need to use up. Definitely making this tonight for my boys. Thanks!

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  17. This was out of this world – modified the mac and cheese using my own recipe and used a Carolina sweet barbeque sauce – AMAZING!! Thanks for the recipe.

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  18. I definitely want to make this tomorrow. If I made it in advance and put it in the fridge, would I go through step 5 and then add the pork and cheese to heat again later?

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  20. This needs more than a 5 star rating because it is beyond delicious and almost addictive – I think it is my new “death row meal”. The tang of BBQ sauce goes so well with the creamy pasta and I love the easy technique for the Mac n Cheese. It’s definitely worth cooking up a big batch of pulled pork just to make this. I’ve made this multiple times and can’t believe it has taken me so long to comment on it. Thanks for a great recipe.

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