Beef & Roni

Submitted by Mama_Jennie

"Another quick, inexpensive dinner made mostly with what you have on hand. I usually always have these ingredients in my freezer or in my pantry. I love this because it doesn't keep me in the kitchen all night during the week."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 5-6

ingredients

• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1⁄2 cup onion (chopped)
• 2 garlic cloves (minced)
• 8 ounces tomato sauce (1/2 can)
• 3⁄4 cup parmesan cheese (more if you like cheese like we do)
• 2 1⁄2 cups elbow macaroni (dried)

directions

1. Sauté onion & garlic on medium heat for 5 minutes. Turn heat up to medium high & add beef. Cook until no pink remains.
2. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce, & parmesan cheese and lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
3. Cook macaroni while beef mixture is simmering. Drain and combine macaroni & beef mixture together. Let sit for a few minutes.
4. Pairs well with bread & a salad. Enjoy!

Reviews

[laboratty]

Excellent weeknight recipe. As another reviewer noted, this is really a lot of macaroni; I cooked the entire amount but ended up not stirring in about a cup (cooked). The parmesan cheese gives the sauce a slightly creamy flavor. My picky eaters loved it.

 

[Skeeter03]

I used diced tomatoes with basil and oregano. I found that there was way too much pasta. For the amount of ground beef and tomatoes, I'll use 1 1/2 cups of dried pasta the next time I make it. We did like the recipe. It was almost as good as Stouffer's.

 

[*Parsley*]

A nice, quick meal to put together. I doubled the tomato sauce because it wasn't moist enough for me with only 8 ounces. I also added basil and oregano. I served this garnished with extra shredded cheese. This is a good one for kids and adults. Thanx for sharing!

 

[GaylaV]

We enjoyed this for dinner tonight. My husband has a dislike of macaroni (psychological I say)so I used broken spaghetti instead. It worked fine. I used Diced Tomatoes with onions, peppers and celery. It does need some salt and pepper but adding at the table worked fine for us. Thanks for sharing your recipe.

 

[morgainegeiser]

This was quick and easy. Also, very simple ingredients, reminds me of comfort food my mom always made. Will make this again. Made for ZWT 2008