American Chop Suey
Source: Family recipe (Love Gramp)
Ingredients
- ⅓ to ½ lb ground beef (hamburg)
- ½ of a medium to large onion, cut into fairly large pieces
- 1 medium carrot, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, pressed and cut into small pieces
- 1 stalk celery, cut into ¼-inch slices
- ½ red bell pepper, cut into 1 x ¼-inch pieces
- ½ green bell pepper, same treatment
- 3 or 4 mushrooms, sliced
- 1 tomato, cut into medium pieces (or ½ can whole tomatoes)
- 1 handful fresh spinach, optional
- 1 cup elbow macaroni
- 1 can Campbell’s tomato condensed soup
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- Salt, pepper, and cumin, to taste
- A little red wine
Directions
- Heat olive oil in a large pan or wok over fairly high heat.
- Add ground beef and onion. Cook until onions are translucent. Pour in a little red wine.
- Add garlic and carrot. Cook another 2–3 minutes.
- (Start boiling salted water for the pasta now.)
- Add everything else except the spinach (peppers, celery, mushrooms, tomato). Continue cooking over medium heat.
- Add pasta to the boiling water and set a timer for 9 minutes.
- Sprinkle salt, pepper, and cumin over the pan.
- After 4 minutes, add the can of tomato soup and stir.
- After 2 more minutes, add the spinach.
- When the timer goes off, drain the pasta and add to the pan.
- Stir and serve.