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    Home » Recipes » Weight Watcher Recipes

    Weight Watchers Taco Pasta

    Published: Oct 9, 2017 · Modified: Aug 8, 2024 by Jenna · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

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    Weight Watchers Taco Pasta - a hearty beef taco pasta topped with cheese and all the taco fixings. This Taco Pasta has ground beef, cheese, taco seasoning (duh), salsa, and macaroni. It's almost like Hamburger Helper.

    You can top it with other taco toppings such as avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, and green onions but if you just added a ton of avocados directly on to the pasta the avocado would brown pretty fast.

    This Taco Pasta has ground beef, cheese, taco seasoning (duh), salsa, and macaroni. It's almost like Hamburger Helper.

    You know what I call Mondays now?  Taco Tuesday Eve. If I remember right, I think I saw that on Facebook and it just stuck with me. 🙂 Everyone seems to hate Mondays but that is what works for me to make Mondays go by faster. What do you guys do on a Monday to make it not seem so blah?

    Since tomorrow is Taco Tuesday, I thought that this Taco Pasta would be sufficient. This Taco Pasta comes in at 9 smart points per serving and makes around 8 servings. Average serving size is a cup.

    Weight Watchers Taco Pasta
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    • Ingredients Needed
    • How to Make Taco Pasta
    • Tips for Taco Pasta 
    • Recipe Tips for Taco Pasta
    • Recommended Tools to Make This Recipe 
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    • Weight Watchers Taco Pasta

    Ingredients Needed

    • 1 lb of elbow macaroni
    • 1 lb of 96% lean ground beef
    • 2 cups beef broth
    • 1 package of low sodium taco seasoning
    • ½ cup of salsa
    • 1 cup of reduced fat or fat free shredded cheddar cheese
    • additional taco toppings such as green onions, tomatoes, avocado, more cheese, fat free sour cream, etc...

    How to Make Taco Pasta

    Step 1 Cook the ground beef in a skillet and drain the fat. Add the ground beef back to skillet, taco seasoning, beef stock, salsa and cheese.

    Step 2 Add in the pasta to the pot, cover, and cook on medium heat for 8 minutes.

    Step 3 Add cheese on top until it's all melted and gooey.

    How to Make Taco Pasta step 1.

    Step 4 Serve the pasta with more cheese, green onions, tomatoes, avocado, or fat free sour cream if desired. It's good without all those extra toppings.

    1. Serving Size: 1 cup 
    Weight Watchers Taco Pasta

    Tips for Taco Pasta 

    I find 96& lean ground beef at Wal-Mart in their meat department and Fat-free cheddar cheese there as well. Aldi has great grass fed lean ground beef as well. Sometimes it gets reduced and marked down.

    You can get all these ingredients for Taco Pasta at Aldi.

    If you don't like fat-free cheddar use whatever pasta you like to use. You can add additional cheese on top of the pasta and wait until it melts. Also, feel free to change up the pasta type. I used elbow but small shells would be fun for this.

    Additional pasta toppings: nonfat plain Greek Yogurt, black beans, roma tomatoes, scallions, and olives.

    Recipe Tips for Taco Pasta

    Other seasonings to try? Try a packet of fajita seasoning mix instead of taco seasoning.

    How to store leftovers: Always store leftovers in clean, food-grade containers. The type of container doesn’t really matter. Use zip lock, glass, plastic,  whatever!  Make sure to store any leftovers in an airtight container before putting it in the freezer or fridge. 

    This can be prepped the day ahead.

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    Weight Watchers Taco Pasta

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    • Author: Jenna
    • Prep Time: 18min
    • Cook Time: 18min
    • Total Time: 25min
    • Yield: 8 1x
    • Category: Easy
    • Method: StoveTop
    • Cuisine: Mexican
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    Weight Watchers Taco Pasta - a hearty beef taco pasta topped with cheese and all the taco fixings. This Taco Pasta has ground beef, cheese, taco seasoning (duh), salsa, and macaroni. It's almost like Hamburger Helper. 


    Ingredients

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    • 1 lb of elbow macaroni
    • 1 lb of 96% lean ground beef
    • 1 package of low sodium taco seasoning
    • ½ cup of salsa 
    • 2 cups of low sodium beef broth 
    • 1 cup of reduced fat or fat free shredded cheddar cheese
    • additional taco toppings such as green onions, tomatoes, avocado, more cheese, fat free sour cream, etc...

    Instructions

      1. Cook the ground beef in a skillet and drain the fat. Add the ground beef back to skillet, taco seasoning, beef stock, salsa and cheese.

      1. Add in the pasta to the pot, cover, and cook on medium heat for 8 minutes.

      1. Add cheese on top until it's all melted and gooey.

      1. Serve the pasta with more cheese, green onions, tomatoes, avocado, or fat free sour cream if desired. It's good without all those extra toppings.

      1. Serving Size: 1 cup 


    Notes

    myWW points: Blue  8; Green 8;  Purple  8

    My WW Personal Points: 8 Click here to see in recipe builder (will have to log in) 


    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: 1 cup
    • Calories: 345
    • Sugar: 3
    • Fat: 7
    • Saturated Fat: 5
    • Carbohydrates: 44
    • Fiber: 3
    • Protein: 25

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    1. Jenna says

      October 26, 2021 at 9:16 pm

      Thanks for the review Margie!

    2. Margie says

      October 26, 2021 at 8:24 pm

      The family loved it. Served with street taco tortillas. It is a keeper for us.

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