Recipe: Perfect One pot beef taco pasta skillet

One pot beef taco pasta skillet.

You can have One pot beef taco pasta skillet using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of One pot beef taco pasta skillet

1. You need 1 lb of ground beef.
2. It's 1/2 of onion, diced(optional).
3. It's 1/2 of green pepper, diced (optional).
4. Prepare 2 teaspoons of minced garlic.
5. It's 1 packet of taco seasoning.
6. You need 1 cup of salsa (I substitute a half of can of tomatoes with green chili’s).
7. You need 1 (8 oz) of can tomato sauce.
8. Prepare 1 of (12oz)box bow tie uncooked pasta shells.
9. Prepare 3 cups of beef broth (add more if needed or add more water).
10. It's 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese.
11. Prepare of I added a splash of milk, when adding the cheese and I used velveete cheese (optional).

One pot beef taco pasta skillet instructions

1. Brown the beef, onion, green pepper, and garlic until no pink remains. Drain any fat..
2. Add in the taco seasoning, the salsa, tomato sauce, the beef broth and the pasta shells..
3. Stir to combine and bring to a boil..
4. Cover and simmer over medium-low heat stirring occasionally 20 minutes or until pasta is tender. (add more broth or water if needed) the original recipe called for 2 cups but I changed the amount of pasta to more and changed the pasta noodle type as well, was just some of my changes. so when I made this I think I used 3 cups I did add water to the Original recipe I was using.).
5. Remove from heat and stir in 1 cup cheddar cheese..
6. Top with diced tomatoes, sour cream or any other taco toppings you would like..
7. I think if you added Frito chips to the top of this it would taste like the hamburger helper taco..