Cute hand pies with a sweet peach pie filling that has a hint of cinnamon. These are warm, glazed, and taste better than the tiny, individually wrapped glazed fruit pies you could purchase at the grocery store. The pie filling can certainly be changed to your preferred flavor.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- ½ pound lean ground beef, or more to taste
- ½ small onion, minced
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups elbow macaroni
- 8 ounces reduced-fat processed cheese food (such as Velveeta®), cut into small pieces
- 2 tablespoons reduced-fat sour cream, or more to taste
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
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- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef, onion, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and black pepper in the hot skillet until beef is browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease.
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- Increase heat to high. Add water to ground beef mixture in the skillet. Cover and bring to a boil. Stir macaroni into boiling water-ground beef mixture. Cover, lower heat to medium, and cook for 5 minutes. Stir, cover, and continue cooking until macaroni is tender, about 5 minutes.
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- Stir processed cheese food into ground beef-macaroni mixture until melted. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream.
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- For a Mexican version, add 1 tablespoon cumin and 2 teaspoons chili powder to ground beef as it cooks. Serve with chopped lettuce, tomato, and salsa. If you’re in a hurry, you may use dehydrated onion instead of fresh and add more onion powder.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 449 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 48 g |
| Cholesterol | 61 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 28 g |
| Saturated Fat | 8 g |
| Sodium | 930 mg |
| Sugars | 7 g |
| Fat | 15 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
5 stars in my book when my whole family will happily eat a meal together. (Three littles). I doubled it and used two boxes of deluxe shells and cheese instead of velveeta, along with four cups of water. So good and so fast!!
Overall very easy to put together. – I chose to add tomato sauce after I tasted how cheesy I accidentally made it (I eyeballed how much cheese to put) also just used cheddar. But I did follow all other instructions for ingredients. Easy ✔️ Affordable ✔️ A little goes a long way
I have made this several times. I use as a starter recipe. I use cheddar cheese, peppers, minced garlic, tomatoes. Great starter.
Added some Tomato sauce Really good and easy
I used shredded cheddar, American and cream cheese with the sour cream. Added thyme as well. Dill would also be a great flavor addition!
It was great and very easy and no I did not make any changes to the recipe
We loved it! Growing up on hamburger helper, we both love the homemade version so much better! My hubs can’t eat many spices, so it’s nice to know he loved it and wants it again soon! Thanks for all the great recipes!
Too much macaroni!!! Otherwise it’s okay. I should have known as I was measuring out the macaroni it was too much for this recipe. 2 cups must be a typo.
Very good basic recipe for a quick tasty dinner, took the Mexican suggestion, added some cayenne pepper, a little worcesteshire sauce, and some salsa! Came out great with the add ins.
I followed the recipe exactly. This dish can be prepared quickly and easily. It’s a good week-night dinner. Next time I’ll a add a dash more salt and sour cream.
I add some tomato paste 4 oz
I made this exactly as instructed and was pleasantly surprised. Much better than the store bought boxed versions. I like my cheeseburger mac with a little spice, so i used the Mexican Blend Velveeta cheese and a can of diced chilis to go with it. Plus you can’t have a cheeseburger without bacon, so i cooked up some bacon chopped it and added it a few minutes before the end of cooking. will definitely make this again.
I used Velveeta, and a whole pound of ground beef. It was a bit too cheesy/gooey.
Good starter recipe that you can easily customize with what you have on hand! I used 1 lb ground turkey, 1cup milk, leftover penne, and added smoked paprika to seasonings. I skipped the sour cream bc the sauce was plenty thick to our liking after the cheese was fully melted/incorporated
Great. I put less Velveeta cheese and added sharp cheddar. So good.
One of these stars is for ease. Very little flavor to recipe as written. I will use this recipe as a base but definitely needs more oomph! Maybe a combo of cheeses, or less noodles? Definitely more herbs/spices. Maybe some garlic and peppers in with the meat and onions. This is a good option when you need to make a little go a long way.
I loved it!! I added more sour cream.
The Velveeta ruined this. It was bland and sticky, and the sour cream addition was just weird. Nobody in my family liked this version.
I’m a bachelor, can I freeze this dish in containers?
I made it w 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese not Velveeta cheese…I also added bacon bits and shake of chili powder … I also added 2 tbsp cream cheese in place of the sour cream..and a shake of parmesan cheese.
Yummy! It was great!