Photo: Chili Mac Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound corkscrew shaped pasta with lines or elbows with lines
- 2 pounds ground sirloin
- 2 tablespoons (2 turns around the pan in a slow stream) extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 sweet onion, chopped
- 2 jalapeno peppers, seed and chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 3 tablespoons (1 1/2 palm fuls) dark chili powder
- 2 tablespoons (1 palm ful) cumin
- 2 tablespoons cayenne pepper sauce
- Coarse salt
- 1 cup beer or beef broth
- 1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes in juice
- 1 (14-ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- Chopped scallions, for garnish
Directions
In a large pot, boil pasta until al dente.
Meanwhile, in a big, deep pot, brown beef in oil over medium high heat. Add onions, peppers, and garlic. Season meat mixture with chili powder, cumin, cayenne, and salt. Cook together 5 minutes, stir in beer or broth, and reduce liquid by half, 2 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and simmer for 10 minutes.
Drain pasta. Add hot pasta to chili pot and stir to coat pasta evenly. Remove from heat and garnish big bowlfuls of chili mac with chopped scallions.
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By haliparo
Chicago
on August 10, 2012
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One of my family's favorites! I always add drained chili beans to the mix.
By prometheis_7806...
LAKEHILLS, TX
on April 22, 2012
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I used 3 serrano chili peppers vice the 2 jalapenos with success! But I found 2T(tablespoons of cumin to be WAY too overwhelming! I'll cut the cumin in half in the future, otherwise a good easy comfort food with a 4* star rating.
By Twecious813
Washington, DC
on November 09, 2011
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This was really good. I had been looking for a beef & macaroni dish with a tomato base but kept getting ghoulash results. This was exactly what I was looking for. I made some modifications: 1 Didnt use jalapenos. Just added a little cayenne 2 I reduced the recipe to half as I was only making for me & my honey. 3 I added a little italian sausage to it. Cut the casing off and pinched little pieces off and added to the ground beef in the pot. YUM!! 4 I also added a little A1 sauce & worcestire once everything was combined in the pot. Gave it an extra beefy meaty flavor that my meat & potato guy loves. 5 I used Barilla elbows w. the ridges which stuck to the sauce well. This will def be added to the repetoire. My honey was pleasantly surprised. Oh I also sprinkled a little grated parmesan on top in my individual bowl. Delicious!!
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