You will never go back to regular mac & cheese after trying this dish!
This easy prep recipe is perfect for those days when you just don’t feel like spending more than 10 minutes preparing dinner, but still want a yummy & nutritious meal for your family. Kids love mac and cheese, but traditional recipes are loaded with fat and artificial ingredients. This Tex-Mex inspired recipe is made with 100% clean ingredients, has no sugar added, and doesn’t sacrifice taste.
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Tex-Mex Style Macaroni & Cheese
Ingredients
- 8 ounces whole wheat macaroni dry
- 15 ounce kidney or black beans can, drained
- 16 ounce salsa jar, no sugar added
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher or sea salt to taste
- 1 cup 2% sharp cheddar cheese grated -block cheese is best
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cook macaroni according to package instructions, drain. Combine in a large mixing bowl, cooked macaroni and remaining ingredients. Add to medium casserole dish, spread evenly, cover loosely with foil and bake 25-30 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Add additional cheese if desired.
Nutrition Information
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Can't save the recipe! Zip link says there's a problem. 🙁
Holly, Try again this morning…may have been an issue last night. It is working now! 🙂
Picante Sauce is like Salsa?
My little girl absolutely loves this recipe and the leftovers are easy to freeze in portions and perfect for healthy toddler lunches!
Yum, this is sooo good!!
I ran this with two different recipe creators and got 238 calories for a cup. I also ended up with 6 cups total. Any idea why?
I used everything you said, except I was a little confused with "picante sauce." Is that just salsa? Because that's what I used.
Chelsea, Picante is chunkier. We use nutritiondata.self.com for nutritional data. We'll enter the values again and make sure there was no error. Thanks!
Can you make this in the slow cooker?
Cassy, I wouldn’t recommend it. The noodles tend to disappear and turn into mush with this recipe… when prepared in the slow cooker.
Is that 8 oz in weight or 8 oz like in a cup?
In Weight…as in an 8oz box of pasta. 🙂
8 oz in weight.
I added all my ingredients NI together and divided by four and it is WAY more than 185. I thought this sounded too good to be true with pasta, cheese, and beans. I took all my packages and added them and got over 400!
Gilly, The nutritional data is correct, but the # of servings should be 6. Just made the update. Thanks!