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Easy Beef Goulash

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Easy Beef Goulash is a quick and easy pasta dinner that can take the place of hamburger helper.

Enjoy this easy to make easy beef goulash made of ground beef.

Easy Beef Goulash is so easy to make. Vintage recipes can often be made with a quick look inside your pantry. This recipe is flexible as you can use either egg noodles or pasta. So this recipe is a perfect way to use up random bits of pasta. This recipe also contains tomato sauce, canned mushrooms, ground beef, and noodles. You can make this recipe in no time at all. Easy Beef Goulash can be made in about 25 minutes, and it takes great when you reheat it the next day, so it is a great recipe to make for when you want a quick and easy dinner.

In years past people used a lot less boxed mixes, so there were less preservatives, and chances are your grocery bill was a little less too. One of the reasons a lot of people like retro style recipes is that it is easy to modify a recipe. For example, if you love cheese, you could add cheese to this dish, without any trouble at all.

Easy to make beef goulash is a great dinner to make for your family. This one pan meal is easy to prepare.

Easy to make beef goulash is a great dinner to make for your family. This one pan meal is easy to prepare.
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Easy Beef Goulash
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 

Don't buy Hamburger Helper when you can make beef goulash in to time at all. 

Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Casserole, One Pot Meal
Recipe Era: 1950s
Servings: 4
Calories: 496 kcal
Author: Ethel Eynard
Ingredients
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 3 cups medium sized egg noodles, uncooked
  • 1 15 ounce can tomato sauce
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 envelope dry onion soup mix
  • 1 small can mushroom pieces undrained
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
  1. In a large skillet cook ground beef on medium-high.  Season with salt and pepper while the beef is cooking.   If needed drain excess fat from beef. 

  2. Sprinkle noodles evenly over meat.  Combine tomato sauce, water, sugar, soup mix, and mushroom pieces in a small bowl.  Pour sauce over noodles.  Do not stir.

  3. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes on medium-high, or until the noodles are cooked. 

  4. Note, if you wish to use pasta, like macaroni swap the 3 cups of egg noodles for 2 cups of pasta. 

Nutrition Facts
Easy Beef Goulash
Amount Per Serving
Calories 496 Calories from Fat 207
% Daily Value*
Fat 23g35%
Saturated Fat 8g50%
Cholesterol 80mg27%
Sodium 1178mg51%
Potassium 478mg14%
Carbohydrates 43g14%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 4g4%
Protein 26g52%
Vitamin C 0.3mg0%
Calcium 44mg4%
Iron 2.9mg16%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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