Description
Delicious old fashioned ground beef goulash just like grandma made — hearty, comforting, and full of flavor. Made with bell peppers, onions, tomato sauce, diced or crushed tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce and elbow macaroni pasta. An easy, family-friendly dinner that’s budget-friendly, freezer-friendly, and perfect for feeding a crowd.
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 oz elbow pasta
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 tsp garlic paste
- 15 oz tomato sauce
- 14.5 oz petite diced tomatoes
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
- Red pepper flakes (optional)
- Italian spices (optional)
- Olives (optional)
- Artichokes (optional)
Instructions
- Step: Cook pasta. In a dutch oven, cook elbow macaroni according to package, drain and set aside.
- Step: Cook beef with vegetables. Set the dutch oven to medium-high heat and add ground beef, diced bell peppers and onion. Cook until ground beef is brown and peppers and onions are soft, about 10 minutes. Add garlic paste and cook for an additional minute.
- Step: Make sauce. Stir in tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, olive oil, sugar and salt to taste.
- Step: Combine. Add cooked pasta to sauce and stir to combine.
- Step: Add toppings. (Optional) Offer Parmesan cheese, red pepper flakes, Italian spices, olives and/or artichokes as optional toppings.
Notes
To cook the pasta in the sauce instead of cooking and draining it first: Add pasta uncooked plus 1 and 1/2 cups of water. Cook pasta and sauce over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for 15-20 minutes or until pasta is desired tenderness.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 415 kcal
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 712 mg
- Fat: 19 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 12 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 43 g
- Fiber: 4 g
- Protein: 20 g
- Cholesterol: 54 mg
Keywords: American Goulash, ground beef recipe, easy dinner, one-pot meal