Ground Beef Ragu Recipe
https://easyhomemaderecipes.caGround Beef Ragù is a comforting, everyday Italian-style meat sauce that delivers rich flavor without complicated steps or hard to find ingredients. This version uses ground beef for convenience while still honoring the slow-simmered method that defines a true ragù. It is a dependable sauce that works just as well for weeknight dinners as it does for make-ahead meals and freezer friendly cooking making it the perfect sauce for the perfect plate of pasta.Beef Ragù is the perfect sauce to top Homemade Potato Gnocchi. Other sauces you might want to try might be panna sauce, pesto sauce or even pasta topped with ricotta and spring peas.
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Ingredients
- ¾ lbs ground beef
- 2 oz carrots 1 carrot, chopped
- 2 oz celery 1 celery stalk, chopped
- 5 oz onion 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic chopped
- 25 oz tomato puree
- 3 tbsp tomato paste
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cube beef stock gel
- ½ cup dry red wine
- 16 oz pasta
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3 leaves basil fresh or dried
Instructions
- Chop the garlic, onion, celery and carrots. You can use a mini blender.
- Brown the ground beef in olive oil in a medium sauté pan over medium high heat, stir occasionally to break up the meat. Remove browned veal and set aside.
- Place the vegetables in the pan and sauté until translucent.
- Add cooked ground beef to the sauté pan with the vegetable mixture.
- Add the dry red wine and let infuse into the meat and veggies for 2 to 3 minutes, scrape the bottom of the pot scraping the browned bits while mixing sauteing.
- Add the beef cube (add water if not using broth or gel molds) and the tomato paste. Mix well while sauteing to ensure that the tomato paste and beef cube are well incorporated into the ground meat. Add fresh basil (optional). Alternatively, you can add dried basil once sauce is cooked.
- Add tomato puree and mix. Season if necessary with salt and pepper.
- Let simmer on stove top for 1 to 2 hours until thick. Add dried basil once cooked either in sauce or on top as garnish.
- Cook your pasta as per manufacturer's instructions. Scoop beef ragu on top of pasta and serve immediately.
Notes
Tips
Some tricks to prevent your ground beef from clumping together when sauteing:- Pour a few drops of lemon juice on it.
- Pour cold water in the pan.
- Use a wooden spoon or heat proof spatula to break up the meat while sauteing.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Calories: 742kcalCarbohydrates: 108gProtein: 35gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 70mgSodium: 247mgPotassium: 1571mgFiber: 9gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 3539IUVitamin C: 26mgCalcium: 95mgIron: 6mg
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