When you need some homemade comfort food, this Better-than-Mom’s Stovetop Goulash with Macaroni, Tomatoes, and Ground Beef will do the trick! This easy recipe is kid-friendly and freezes well. Use Pasta Recipes to find more recipes like this one.
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A couple of weeks ago I confessed on Twitter that I was making a recipe by Paula Deen, and even though this Stovetop Goulash with Macaroni, Tomatoes, and Ground Beef seems like a pretty light recipe for her, this delicious goulash was pure comfort food for me.
The recipe starts with lean ground beef, onions, tomato sauce, and canned tomatoes, and then macaroni is simmered with the other ingredients for 30 minutes. Still, everyone needs comfort food once in a while, and since I’m currently sorting through and packing up twenty-five years of accumulated stuff in preparation for the move to my new house, I’m not going to be too hard on myself for enjoying it.
I remember my mom making this kind of dish, but mom’s goulash was never like this. It’s hard to say just what makes this recipe so lick-the-plate delicious, but Jake and I could not stop remarking on how good it was when we tested the recipe. I changed up the seasonings a little and also cut the recipe in half so I wouldn’t be able to overindulge too much!
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When you need some homemade comfort food, this Better-than-Mom’s Stovetop Goulash with Macaroni, Tomatoes, and Ground Beef will do the trick!
This recipe adapted slightly from Bobby’s Goulash by Paula Deen.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
I was thinking more about comfort food than I was about carb-conscious eating when I made this, and even though it’s mostly made of low-glycemic ingredients, simmering the macaroni in the tomato sauce mixture for 30 minutes means this recipe is probably best limited to Phase 3 for South Beach dieters, even with Dreamfields or whole wheat macaroni. This is not a low-carb dish, so it would be a definite splurge for low-carb diets, but you could make a more carb-conscious version by using more beef and less macaroni.
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