Description
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
Scale
- 1 lb of elbow macaroni
- 1 lb of 96% lean ground beef
- 1 package of low sodium taco seasoning
- 1/2 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
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- 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.
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- Add in the pasta to the pot, cover, and cook on medium heat for 8 minutes.
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- Add cheese on top until it's all melted and gooey.
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- 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.
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- 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
