Cheesy Veggi Chili Mac

Submitted by Truffle

"A Chili Mac with a slight twist, its has Mac & Cheese instead of just pasta as well as it has some healthy stuff added in with the spinach & broccoli"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 10 Cups
• Serves: 10

ingredients

• 3 3 lbs ground deer meat or 3 lbs ground chicken
• 2 (14 ounce) boxes Kraft macaroni and cheese (you can use any kind of Mac and cheese I prefer the kraft deluxe 4 cheese mac and cheese)
• 3 (1 1/4 ounce) packets chili seasoning mix (I use Hot chili seasoning mix)
• 3 cups water
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1 tablespoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon ground cayenne pepper or 1 tablespoon ground habanero chile pepper
• 10 ounces spinach (Fresh)
• 2 heads broccoli (Fresh)

directions

1. Finely chop up the bag of spinach and set aside.
2. Finely chop up Broccoli heads and set aside.
3. Prepare the macoroni and cheese and set aside.
4. Brown the three pounds of ground turkey (use any meat you want) in a large pan or large electric skillet.
5. Once the meat is done add three cups of water and then add in the three packets of chili seasoning mix well, add salt, pepper, and ground cayenne/habanero pepper to your taste (i use about 1 tbsp of each).
6. Let simmer until almost all the water evaporates then mix in the chopped up Spinach and Broccoli that you set aside earlier, continue to simmer and mix until the spinach and broccoli are well spread out and no longer clumped together.
7. Mix in the cooked macoroni and cheese that you set aside earlier and continue to stir/mix it in while the meat and veggies are still simmering until everything is evenly mixed.
8. once you have it all good and mixed you may remove it from the heat.
9. you may now serve or portion into 1 cup servings in sandwich bags and freeze for latter, if you freeze them you need to let them thaw in the fridge for 24 hours before reheating for 2 min in the microwave while still in the unopened bag.