Grandma's Hamburger Helper

Name: Grandma's Hamburger Helper
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4-6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 lb ground beef; 1/2 onion, diced; 2 celery ribs, diced; 1 (398 ml) can diced tomatoes; 1 cup pasta; 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package onion soup mix; 1 cup cheddar cheese, grated

Submitted by Lisaschm

"This is my go to recipe when I don't want to cook. I learned it from my Grandmother who used it in similar situations!"

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Ready In:: 40mins
Ingredients:: 7
Serves:: 4-6

ingredients

1 lb ground beef
¹⁄₂ onion, diced
2 celery ribs, diced
1 (398 ml) can diced tomatoes
1 cup pasta
1 (1 1/4 ounce) package onion soup mix
1 cup cheddar cheese, grated

directions

Saute onion and celery in water or chicken stock, set aside.
Brown the ground beef, drain.
Add onion and celery back in.
Add can of diced tomatoes, a can of water and the pasta.
Bring to boil, simmer uuntil pasta is soft and water is gone.
Mix in onion soup mix.
Mix in cheddar cheese.
Serve.

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Reviews

I love this recipe! I used reduced fat cheese, lean beef, and homemade onion soup mix. It was so good.

fleed
For a quick pull together meal this worked out great! I enjoyed it so much I brought the extra over to my parents for them to try and they loved it. Only thing I did different was kicked it up a bit with a few sprinkles of crushed red pepper flakes. The heat wasn't too intense but it slowly creeped up as a warmth! I used gemli pasta and it cooked in approximately a half hour.

CookinginCT84
I was a little worried about this one being bland but it turned out pretty good. I used ground turkey, mini shells for the pasta, and lowfat cheddar cheese. I didn't take the onions and celery out of the skillet, I added the ground turkey to the pan and sauteed it like that. I was worried that the pasta wouldn't get done, so I covered the skillet for a while. It took longer to cook the pasta than on the pasta package and the whole thing took abut 50-60 minutes to cook. It was easy and it was only one skillet so I was happy about that. Worth trying for sure.

trooworld
I just made this for dinner, and it was very good! I didn't have celery so I used green pepper, and was a little leary about cooking the noodles with everything else in the skillet because I'd never done it before, so I cooked them separately and then mixed it all together. Quick easy, one pot meal I'll definitely make again!

JillBean