How To Make Bacon Brown Sugar Hamburger Helper
The all-time favorite weeknight meal hamburger helper made with beefy pasta that is filled with bacon and brown sugar that you can prepare in 30 minutes.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1lblarge elbow pasta
- 8bacon slices
- 1lblean ground beef
- 1yellow onion,diced, small
- 1cuptomato sauce
- 2tbspbrown sugar
- 1cupbeef broth
- 1tbspcorn starch
- ½tspkosher salt
- ½tspfresh ground black pepper
Instructions
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Cook the large elbow pasta according to the directions on the bag and drain (do not rinse).
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Add the bacon to a cast-iron skillet, cook until crisp, and remove from the pan and crumble.
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Add the ground beef to a large cast-iron skillet and brown until a deep brown crust appears before breaking the beef apart.
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Remove the beef (you can leave the fat) and add the onions and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring well.
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Mix the beef broth and the cornstarch until it is dissolved.
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Add the beef, tomato sauce, brown sugar, beef broth mixture, salt, and black pepper into the pan.
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Cook until the mixture is only slightly liquidy for about 3 to 5 minutes before adding the pasta and bacon back into the pan and mixing well.
Nutrition
- Calories: 674.23kcal
- Fat: 31.80g
- Saturated Fat: 11.12g
- Trans Fat: 0.94g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 13.60g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.37g
- Carbohydrates: 65.87g
- Fiber: 3.46g
- Sugar: 7.89g
- Protein: 29.26g
- Cholesterol: 79.20mg
- Sodium: 688.64mg
- Calcium: 48.79mg
- Potassium: 682.24mg
- Iron: 3.20mg
- Vitamin A: 16.33µg
- Vitamin C: 4.40mg
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