Simple Way to Make Homemade One Pot Chili Mac

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, one pot chili mac. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

It's mac and cheese combined with a super easy homemade chili using pantry ingredients, combining two of your favorite kind of comfort foods in a single one pot meal. It's quick, easy and sure to be a hit with the entire family. This delicious chili mac and cheese with ground beef, diced tomatoes, rich tomato sauce, chili beans and spices is cooked all in one pot–including the macaroni! This one pot chili mac was so good I decided to finally get around to setting up account.

One Pot Chili Mac is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. One Pot Chili Mac is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook one pot chili mac using 17 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make One Pot Chili Mac:

1. Prepare 1 tbsp. olive oil
2. Get 1 lb. ground beef (or ground turkey)
3. Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
4. Make ready 1 small onion, diced
5. Make ready 1 small bell pepper, finely diced
6. Prepare 1 can (14.5 oz.) fire roasted diced tomatoes, undrained
7. Prepare 1 can (16 oz.) kidney beans, drained and rinsed
8. Prepare 1 tbsp. chili powder
9. Get 1 1/2 tsp. cumin
10. Prepare 1 tsp. brown sugar
11. Take 1/2 tsp. each oregano, salt, pepper
12. Get 1/4 tsp. each onion powder, garlic powder, smoked paprika
13. Take dash Worcestershire sauce
14. Get 3 cups unsalted chicken broth
15. Take 1 can (8 oz.) unsalted tomato sauce
16. Make ready 2 cups elbow pasta (or other small pasta shape)
17. Make ready 4 oz. diced American cheese

Doing dishes is my least favorite part about cooking, which is why I turn to one pot meals whenever possible. My kids request this chili mac constantly, and for good reason. Chili mac holds a special place in our hearts. For us, it's a nostalgic meal from our childhood that combines the easy-to-approach comfort of Why we love this One Pot Chili Mac: ↠ Lots of complex flavors and textures that come together really quickly. ↠ Cooking the pasta in with the chili saves you.

Steps to make One Pot Chili Mac:

1. Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add in the onion and pepper. Cook until onion is translucent. Then add the garlic and cook a minute or so more, until fragrant. Add the ground beef. Continue to cook, breaking up the meat as you go, until the meat is cooked through. Drain excess fat, if needed.
2. Stir in the diced tomatoes, kidney beans, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce and the multiple seasonings. Increase the heat to med-high and add the broth and tomato sauce. Bring to a boil.
3. Once it reaches a boil, stir in the pasta. Decrease heat and let it simmer, stirring often, until the pasta is cooked and the liquid has greatly reduced, about 10-14 minutes. After about 8 minutes, stir in the American cheese so that it melts through while the pasta finishes cooking. Once it's done, remove the pot from the heat and let it sit 5-10 minutes, then serve it up with your favorite chili toppings.

Chili mac holds a special place in our hearts. For us, it's a nostalgic meal from our childhood that combines the easy-to-approach comfort of Why we love this One Pot Chili Mac: ↠ Lots of complex flavors and textures that come together really quickly. ↠ Cooking the pasta in with the chili saves you. Chili mac is as retro a dish as it sounds. It was Tuesday lunch served by hairnetted lunch ladies in the school cafeteria, a satisfying meal at the Elbow noodles cook right in the pot so the liquid from the tomatoes and chicken broth soak right into the noodles, cooking the pasta and using the pasta starch. This One Pot Chili Mac and Cheese is two great comfort foods all in one!

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