QotD: Good On A Cold Day
What food or drink do you love when it's cold out? (Recipes and recommendations, please!)
My favorite "cold weather" recipe actually gets cooked year-round. As an added bonus, this recipe is also Weight-Watchers friendly - approximately 7 points a serving. My changes are in red.)
In fact, I think I'll make this for dinner tonight!
Whole Wheat Chili-Mac (or, as I call it, Tex-Mex Chili Mac)
Ingredients
12 oz uncooked lean ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
(I use the largest red onion that I can find, or 2 smaller ones.)
1 large colored pepper, seeded and chopped
14.5 oz canned stewed tomatoes, undrained
1.25 cup canned/jar tomato sauce
2 TB canned green chili peppers, diced, drained
(I use 2-4 canned chili peppers in adobo sauce, chopped with most of the seeds removed)
2 TSP chili powder
(I use 2 heaping TSP of chili pepper, actually an ancho chili powder that I buy at Fairway.)
1 TSP ground cumin
1 cup dry whole-wheat elbow macaroni
15 oz canned kidney beans, drained and rinsed
Instructions
- In a large skillet, cook beef and onion and peppers until meat is browned,
about 10 minutes; drain off fat. Stir in undrained stewed tomatoes,
tomato sauce, chili peppers, chili powder and cumin; bring to a boil.
- Stir in uncooked macaroni and kidney beans. Return to a boil,
reduce heat, cover and simmer until macaroni is tender, about 15
minutes.
- To serve, spoon into bowls. Yields about 1 3/4 cups of chili per serving.
- Crack open a beer, if you wanna. I like it, but it's not a necessity. :)
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