How to Prepare Perfect One Pot Chili Mac

One Pot Chili Mac. 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. One Pot Vegetarian Chili Mac and Cheese-two of your favorite comfort foods come together in one pot to create a delicious dinner.

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. So I put them together to create them Chili Mac, which is one killer mash-up! You can have One Pot Chili Mac using 17 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of One Pot Chili Mac

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

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One Pot Chili Mac instructions

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..

So it's truly super easy and straightforward to make. First you will need a pot large enough so that you can cook all the ingredients in it. A smaller one won't work in this case. In this large pot heat a bit of oil or vegetable broth for oil. This One Pot Chili Mac and Cheese combines two great comfort foods all in one!