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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
This one pot meal, full of umami flavours and inexpensive ingredients, will take you under an hour to make! Add some veggies or a salad on the side and you’ve got a super easy weeknight dinner.
Don’t forget to make Homemade Seasoned Salt to use in your American chop suey for that little extra burst of flavor! You could also make your own Italian Seasoning blend and learn all about what Worcestershire sauce is exactly.
Reader Review
I have made this recipe many times. It is filling and delicious and a very good way to use hamburger.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This recipe is very easy, both to prepare and to clean up after.
- Total Time: This will take you approximately 45 minutes from start to finish. Less if you you do some prep work in advance.
- Variations: You may be more familiar with this type of recipe as a goulash or a variety of homemade Hamburger Helper. Whatever you call it, it’s an easy meal to personalize. Remove the bell peppers if you can’t eat them or just don’t want them. Add in different vegetables, use a different shape of pasta (maybe a high-protein variety), or throw in some grated cheese.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a big pot, a spoon, a cutting board, and a sharp knife.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Ground Meat: I used lean ground beef for this recipe, but you can use any ground meat you like. Ground chicken or turkey would be great in this since there are plenty of other flavours to make up for the lack of meatiness.
Sauce: The sauce here is a simple mixture of diced tomatoes, condensed tomato soup, tomato sauce, Italian seasoning, and Worcestershire sauce. There’s also a tiny bit of sugar to balance out the acidity of all those tomatoes.
Pasta: Macaroni is the classic pasta shape to use for this recipe, but you can use other similar sized pasta noodles. Cavatappi, rotini, or fusilli would also work well for this dish.
How To Make American Chop Suey
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Fry ground beef in the bottom of a large pot until it is no longer pink. Drain the grease. Add garlic and green pepper and cook for 5-8 minutes.
- Add in all remaining ingredients, except for macaroni. Stir and bring to low simmer. Now, add the macaroni.
- Cover and simmer on low heat for 20-25 minutes. Stir occasionally.
- Remove from heat and serve with a garnish of parsley.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making American Chop Suey
Boost the Nutrition: You can easily add even more nutrition to this dish by adding some veggies. Baby corn, celery, cabbage, bean sprouts, mixed frozen veggies, or even some canned peas would be delicious and add pops of colour. Another easy way to do this would be to use a type of pasta with extra fiber or protein added.
Add Cheese: Who doesn’t love cheese in their pastas dishes? While this recipe doesn’t call for cheese, you can absolutely throw some in there, or sprinkle some on top. Try something with strong flavour (like an aged cheddar or a cheese with hot peppers added in) or something that will melt and get extra stringy and gooey (Mozzarella, Swiss, or gouda). You also can’t go wrong with a sprinkle of grated Parmesan.
Storage Instructions
Once the American Chop Suey is fully cooled, you can store it in a sealed container in the fridge for 3-4 days or in the freezer for several months.
More Delicious Pasta Recipes
Looking for more Pasta recipes?
Try this Classic American Goulash or make some Buffalo Hot Sauce, Bacon & Jalapeño Mac and Cheese.
Looking for something less meaty? How about this Vegetable & Cheese Tortellini Casserole?
There it is, folks. A filling and yummy meal that you can make in one pot. Try it ou and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
American Chop Suey
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds lean ground beef
- 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 cup green pepper , diced
- 1 can (28 ounce) of diced tomatoes
- 1 can (284 ml) condensed tomato soup
- 1 can (680 ml) can of tomato sauce
- 1 ½ Tablespoons Italian seasoning
- 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- ½ Tablespoon seasoning salt
- 1-2 Tablespoons white sugar
- 2 ½ cups dry macaroni
Instructions
- Fry the ground beef in a large stock pot until cooked completely then drain the fat.
- Add in the garlic and green pepper and cook until softened, about 5-8 minutes.
- Add in all of the remaining ingredients, except the macaroni. Stir and bring to a low simmer.
- Add in the macaroni noodles and stir until mixed through.
- Cover and simmer on low heat for 20-25 minutes, until the macaroni is soft, stirring once in a while to ensure that the macaroni doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pot.
- Remove from heat and serve with fresh parsley for garnish.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Betty says
My husband can’t eat bell peppers so would this be a huge problem to just leave out?
Dianne Boggs says
I have made this recipe many times. It is filling and delicious and a very good way to use hamburger.
Norma says
This is goulash
Thomas King says
Love your recipes
Steve Mahuta says
A little confused with the one can/ 28 oz/ one can 284 ml/ one can 680 ml ingredients. All I see is ounces on cans I buy, Is there a miss print here, 680 ml is almost three standard cans Recipe sound delicious.