An effortless weeknight dish that tastes excellent as leftovers is noodles in a light tomato sauce with ground meat and cheese. Peas, whether frozen or thawed, are a sneaky way for me to include vegetables. Actually, you may use any type of pasta.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package elbow macaroni
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 (10.75 ounce) can tomato soup
- 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
- ½ cup shredded Cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 minutes; drain macaroni and return to pot.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Stir tomato soup and tomato sauce into the beef; pour into pot with macaroni and stir. Transfer macaroni mixture to a 1.5-quart baking dish; top with Cheddar cheese.
- Bake in preheated oven until the cheese is melted, 10 to 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 495 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 65 g |
| Cholesterol | 57 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 26 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 584 mg |
| Sugars | 7 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I made this for dinner last week and it was very easy yet delicious. My family loved it. Will definitely make again!
Followed suggestions. 1/2 the macaroni, peppers, onions. I used my home made sauce no soup. No cheese. It was very very good and easy. Skipped the oven part too.
It was very easy to make . Very tasty ! Couldn’t ask for a more simpler and quick recipe. Enjoyed it very much.
I recommend spices,vegetables. And double the sauce and soup. Also use a larger pan for baking.
Tasty, simple recipe! My family compared it to cheeseburger macaroni, as opposed to goulash. After reading the reviews, I added some onion and spices (salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning) to the hamburger, 1 1/2 times the amount of tomato sauce, and extra cheese. When the goulash was done, I realized there should have been more vegetables. So next time, I’ll probably add some zucchini too.
Not great but not bad either. Easy because most things you have on hand anyhow. Would make again but not right away.
I needed a recipe that could be made quickly. I used salt, pepper, and onion powder when cooking the ground beef. I used a 8X13 baking dish which meant I hade to use a cup of cheese to cover. I used a 28 oz. can of tomato sauce to keep it from being too dry. Worked great! Reminds me of school cafeteria goulash back in the 50’s.
My family absolutely loves this and they can be picky eaters the only thing I did differently was added more sauce and put an extra layer of cheese since our family loves cheese and added a lil bit of garlic powder to the meat absolutely love how easy and fast this is since things can get a lil crazy will definitely make this over and over again
1 lb ground chuck 1 small onion diced 1/2 box macaroni small box velveeta 1 tsp chili powder or to taste
Love this! I didn’t have any ground beef, so I used ground pork and it tasted just as good!
Made this recipe this week. It was easy and simple, I took others suggestion since it would had bend to blend.
The name says it all, but the taste. It taste better then the picture shows.
Easy enough, but a little dry – next time I will add more tomato sauce –
It was great! My girlfriend made it. She added extra spices and spinach, and it was perfect!
This was super easy to make. It uses ingredients that most people have on hand all the time. My husband liked it a lot, but said it needed more sauce. For me, the sauce tasted a lot like the sauce in that well known children’s canned spaghetti that has noodles shaped like O-s, which was never a favorite for me. I’m going to make this again using only Italian seasoned tomato sauce and crushed tomatoes to see how that works. All in all, my opinion is that this is a great time saving recipe that kids will love.
Realizing that this would be too bland, I made some modifications. I added chopped onion and green pepper to hamburger. Then along with tomato soup and sauce, added garlic powder, oregano, Ital. seasoning, tsp. of sugar, salt and pepper. I only used 1/2 box of macaroni, as it would have been way too dry. I did like the ease of this recipe.
The proportions were very odd with this recipe. We ended up using a can of diced tomatoes instead of the canned soup (I don’t like canned soup) and browning the ground beef with onion. But there were way too many noodles. Even using 13 oz of noodles to start instead of 16 (what the recipe asks for), we still tossed out almost half the noodles because there were just too many. Even with half the noodles (about 7 oz, in other words), the mix never would’ve fit in the 1.5 quart casserole dish specified. It barely fit in a 2.5 quart casserole dish and needed a ton more cheese (at least a cup) to cover the top. And with all that, it was still a very dull and under-seasoned dish. (It looks like a 13×9 pan in the picture, by the way, which is bigger still and would need even more cheese to cover the top.) The melted cheese tasted good, but I can melt cheese on noodles without a recipe. I might be willing to make it again knowing now that it needs half the noodles, more spice (maybe paprika, but at least salt and pepper) and maybe a can of pasta sauce. It sure needs something! But I suppose that would be a whole different recipe.
I give it 5 stars because it was super easy to make & my finicky eaters, 3,4 & 6 all loved it. I added more cheese on top than the original recipe called for. I also added more tomato soup & tomato sauce as recommended by others. Will be heating up the leftovers for our next dinner & will definitely make this dish again soon.
Made it Tex-Mex style with Campbell’s Mexican style tomato soup & Herdez Yucatan blend corn & beans. Since others claimed of the dryness (& it did seem a little dry going into the oven) I added a little margarine. YUM! KIDS WERE SILENT WHILE CHOWING DOWN!
I added corn and peas plus one packet of dry cream of onion. Delicious!
Turned out great! It was pretty easy to make. I actually didn’t have tomato sauce so I just used two cans of tomato soup and it still was great.