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One-Skillet Cheeseburger Pasta

Ground beef, elbows, and a creamy cheddar sauce cooked together in one pan.

One-Skillet Cheeseburger Pasta, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.70

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb ground beef (93% lean)
  • 10 oz elbow macaroni
  • 3 cup beef broth
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
  • 3 oz tomato paste
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 1 1/2 tsp paprika
  • 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp yellow mustard
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt

Method

  1. Brown the beef with the diced onion in a deep skillet over medium-high, 7 minutes. Pour off excess fat.

  2. Stir in the tomato paste, paprika, garlic powder, mustard, and salt and cook 1 minute.

  3. Add the dry macaroni, broth, and milk and bring to a boil.

  4. Lower to a simmer and cook uncovered 10 to 12 minutes, stirring often, until the pasta is tender and the liquid has thickened.

  5. Off the heat, stir in the cheddar a handful at a time until the sauce is smooth.

  6. Let it sit 3 minutes to set up before serving.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 11 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£39.88£9.9711 of 11 ingredients
Australia$81.27$20.3211 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$112.87$28.2211 of 11 ingredients
Canada$117.58$29.4011 of 11 ingredients
United States$46.81$11.7010 of 11 ingredients
Spain27,53 €6,88 €9 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$866.10$216.539 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏٨٨٣٫٢٥ ج.م.‏‏٢٢٠٫٨١ ج.م.‏8 of 11 ingredients
Greece21,85 €*5,46 €7 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 29,33*€ 7,337 of 11 ingredients
Germany11,79 €*2,95 €5 of 11 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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