Potluck Rigatoni

This rich, delicious, total flavored Rigatoni volition last the first entrée that people will head for at ANY potluck or gathering. It will feed v or half dozen people depending on their appetite, as well as hence if you lot are feeding a crowd, double (or triple) the recipe.

1 pound thin pose down beef
1 loving cup onion chopped
1 clove garlic minced
14 ounce tin flame crushed tomatoes
1 fourteen ounce tin flame water
6 ounce tin flame love apple tree paste
8 ounce tin flame love apple tree sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (don't larn out out)
2 teaspoons dry out basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds (don't larn out out)
1 teaspoon dry out oregano leaves
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
1 loving cup grated Parmesan cheese (not the powdered kind)
1 pound of mozzarella cheese grated
rigatoni noodles (eyeball this sum - almost 8 ounces)

Cook the chopped onion inwards a tablespoon of vegetable stone oil for almost v minutes or until it starts to odour a piddling sweet. Add the garlic as well as cook/stir for to a greater extent than or less other infinitesimal or so.

Stir the pose down beef into the onion-garlic as well as attain until  the meat is no longer pink. After it is cooked, if at that spot is a lot of stone oil inwards the pan, brand certain you lot drain the meat well earlier you lot add together the following.

Add the crushed tomatoes, love apple tree paste, love apple tree sauce, water, saccharide as well as spices. Stir good as well as simmer SLOWLY for an hr as well as a one-half (stirring 1 time inwards a while). After an hr as well as a half, most of the liquid should accept cooked away as well as it volition expect similar this (not likewise dry). If it looks overly dry, add together a loving cup of water.

Stir inwards the Parmesan as well as Mozzarella (but relieve a piddling of the mozzarella to sprinkle over the hap earlier you lot bake it).

 

Now a discussion almost the noodles: You tin flame piece of occupation ANY noodle you lot want, but nosotros actually similar the hardy (thick walled) rigatoni noodles. Boil them inwards salted H2O for xv minutes. I piece of occupation one-half a parcel of rigatoni noodles inwards this recipe. If you lot are using to a greater extent than or less other form of noodle, simply eyeball the amount (and boil according to parcel directions).

Drain the noodles good as well as Stir them into the meat as well as cheese mixture. Top amongst a piddling extra mozzarella as well as bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or till bubbly.

ENJOY !!!