Create a hearty and delicious meal with this simple recipe for Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper. Begin by browning ground beef in a skillet, then add the provided pasta and seasoning mix to simmer into a flavorful blend. As the pasta cooks, watch the dish transform into a savory masterpiece, marrying the classic taste of a cheeseburger with the comforting allure of macaroni. In just a few easy steps, you’ll have a satisfying and homemade Cheeseburger Macaroni that the whole family will love.
We’re g to be making Hamburger Helper from scratch because let me tell you it’s gotten way expensive and the amount of noodles they put in the box has just gotten smaller and smaller so this is what I found on the store shelf these Barilla red lentil rotini these are glutenfree if you see
On the box down at the very bottom it says processed on a de dedicated gluten-free lunch so we’re going to use that we have our great value Vita ripoff we have our butter ball tube meat I know sounds appealing right and this here is from peny spices Arizona
Dreaming and the reason that I grabbed this one out of my spice my spice cupboard is because even though it has onion in it which I’m not a fan of one of the top ingredients is garlic and paprika and paprika is key to making cheeseburger macaroni Hamburger Helper
So until Hamburger Helper starts running those 10 for $10 back when they were or like back when we were like in 1990 I’m gonna be doing this I make my own Hamburger Helper now and you would only get half the amount of noodles and the noodles are key so
Let’s get started so I’m going to use my insta pot if you don’t have an insta pot you can still make this like the old Skillet way okay it’s just going to take longer um I bought an insta pot and love it I know that they no longer make
Them oops just scrape this out perfect so yeah um my sister and I used to stand in the Hamburger Helper aisle because their mom would be like okay I’ve got a coupon 10 for 10 pick out what tin flavors you want and we would take like 15 minutes
Picking out the different flavors of Hamburger Helper we wanted and it was the best thing in the world because we both loved Hamburger Helper and now it’s insane it’s like $4 a box the the tube me is like $4 so that’s $8 and there’s hardly any pasta in it
So yeah that’s pretty good got this nice and cut up and I’m going to go ahead and just put a generous amount of that in there I don’t even really find it that necessary to Stir It insta pot it just kind of boils up so for the cheese I haven’t bought
Any of this stuff for a very long time I was going to buy the small squares but then like I saw that great value has their own and it’s like 5.47 for a giant one and it’s just like I might make more of this it’s good o let’s put this on a
Plate already tell it’s not going to come out easy it’s going to be one of those things where you just have to hunk out so as far as how much cheese so the cheese packets that come in the Box are like oh like that like that big so G to do something
Like and I guarantee you it’s the same consistency once you add some liquid to it so there’s like a chunk I might do three of those chunks because this isn’t in liquid form form it’s more of a solid form yeah wish I can get this out perfect it’s like very rubbery set this
Aside I wouldn’t mind snacking on that so with this you’re going to need some moisture in your pan we’re going to do one one and A2 cup of water and then a half a cup of milk this is what I use for milk kabani this is oat milk okay so
There’s one cup of water there’s two okay so we have two full cups of liquid and because we did a smidge more obviously uh pasta than normal I’m going to do like half a cup more water because we definitely don’t want our noodles drying out and
Also we need um to make our cheese more liquidy and that we’ll do that in the instant [Applause] pot pour it in nice gorgeous red red lentil rotini okay this is interesting guys I don’t know if you guys want to pause to read this but the nutrition
Fact of this are kind of decent I know I don’t really look too much about like the sugar well sometimes I do look about the sugar so to Total sugars 1 G but like look which I’m sure this is probably fortified you’ve got some magnesium you’ve got some zinc tassium
Iron calcium no vitamin D so that’s a ripoff if we really wanted to soup this up we could put some mushrooms in it just give it one one last stir and it smells very spicy and flavorful guess we could have gone Hog Wild and added two tubes of meat and two boxes of
Pasta but we’re not going to do that so and she goes into the pot and we’ll see you in about 13 minutes all right she is done Whoa okay stir this up a little bit our cheese just like disappeared apparently or maybe because it’s just like hard to see the noodles are red you know the lentil noodles so it definitely smells good um it looks good um I would say that the moisture content is pretty
Appropriate I think um let’s try it okay I love Hamburger Helper and it’s really hot so this makes me a little nervous it is lacking on flavor but I’m on the right path I will say this I guarantee you this is much healthier than a regular box of Hamburger Helper even
Though we put in you know like those huge gobs of cheese and really that’s probably all that it would take me just adding more cheese to this I don’t think I’m going to though because I know that’s kind of like a heart attack in a
Box we’re just going to keep it to this I’ve never had these red lentil noodles before they’re pretty good good they do kind of have you know like if you were to take a bean and Smash It and you’d have like that gritty sort of feeling I
Think you do pick up on hints of that but as far as like an alternative noodle they’re good I’ve had corn noodles love corn noodles love rice noodles I would give this a five out of 10 five out of 10 and it will improve