The World's Easiest Meaty Lower-Carb Spaghetti (cooked in a rice cooker)

Can you tell I shop at Trader Joe's?

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups Pasta
2. 1 lb Hamburger
3. 14.5 oz can stewed tomatoes
4. chicken broth
5. 2 tbsp oil
6. 1 tbsp oregano (not pictured)
7. cherry tomatoes (not pictured)

Tools needed:

1. Frying pan
2. Non-metallic spoon (to protect the coating on the rice cooker bowl)
3. Micom rice cooker with non-stick bowl (i.e. not a cheapie on/off rice cooker with an aluminum bowl. (You don't want to cook tomatoes in an uncoated aluminum bowl because they can leach out aluminum.)

 Directions

Brown the meat way more than this



1. heat 2 tbsp oil on medium heat in pan
2. completely brown the meat. while the meat is browning, do the following steps
3. add stewed tomatoes to the rice cooker bowl
4. add tbsp oregano to the bowl.
5. add enough chicken broth to the bowl to bring it to the one-cup line
6. mix in 175 grams or about 1 3/4 cut penne pasta (as much as will fit in the can the stewed tomatoes came in)
7. add meat and mix in
8. put two handfuls of cherry tomotoes on top
9. cook on white rice setting



Blurry but delicious

10. add salt and Parmesan cheese if desired.

Notes: This is a lower carb meal, therefore the pasta is cooked al dente and there isn't too much tomato sauce. I think this version is tastier and heartier than the typical ooey-gooey high-carb version.