Add more cayenne if you want more of a kick. Swap out the cheeses for other medium-soft, grater-friendly cheeses. This version is my favorite, but feel free to skip the pancetta and substitute vegetable stock if you would like to make it vegetarian. This dish is an homage to that original classic, but a lot easier to make.
A very long time ago, one of our chefs at The Chopping Block, Mark Graham, introduced me to his "grown up" version of mac n' cheese with Panko topping and bacon. The Panko topping adds a crunchy bit of texture, which I've been using on my mac n' cheese dishes not made in the Instant Pot for many years. No more monitoring that pot of boiling water to make sure it doesn't boil over onto your stovetop.
You can turn it on and forget about it. Since you don't strain the pasta, the natural starch stays in the pot and serves as a natural thickener for the sauce so no roux is needed. There's no need to strain the pasta once it's done because it absorbs the liquid as it cooks. Here are just a few reasons to make pasta in your pressure cooker: To my delight, not only were the noodles perfectly cooked al dente, but the entire dish came together in just about 20 minutes, including the time for the Instant Pot to come to pressure. There's no roux, no stirring, no draining noodles - none of the many steps homemade mac n' cheese usually involves. You literally dump everything into the pot and turn it on. And with the arrival of cold weather, there's nothing better than a big bowl of cheesy noodles, so why not give mac n' cheese in the pot a shot? I found a recipe from one of my favorite resources, Food52, and made some tweaks to it. I thought the pressure cooker would turn the noodles into complete mush, but I am never one to shy away from experimentation, especially when it comes to my Instant Pot. How could the machine that miraculously turns tough beef short ribs into tender delicacies in less than an hour also make perfectly al dente pasta in just minutes? But when I recently started seeing recipe after recipe online to cook pasta in it, I was skeptical. 
It's no secret that I'm a big fan of the Instant Pot.
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