Potluck Rigatoni

This rich, delicious, total flavored Rigatoni volition hold out the first entrée that people will head for at ANY potluck or gathering. It will feed v or vi people depending on their appetite, too then if you lot are feeding a crowd, double (or triple) the recipe.

1 pound thin solid soil beef
1 loving cup onion chopped
1 clove garlic minced
14 ounce tin crushed tomatoes
1 xiv ounce tin water
6 ounce tin love apple tree paste
8 ounce tin love apple tree sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (don't run out out)
2 teaspoons dry out basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds (don't run 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 total - well-nigh 8 ounces)

Cook the chopped onion inward a tablespoon of vegetable stone oil for well-nigh v minutes or until it starts to aroma a fiddling sweet. Add the garlic too cook/stir for around other infinitesimal or so.

Stir the solid soil beef into the onion-garlic too ready until  the meat is no longer pink. After it is cooked, if at that spot is a lot of stone oil inward 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 too spices. Stir good too simmer SLOWLY for an lx minutes too a one-half (stirring ane time inward a while). After an lx minutes too a half, most of the liquid should accept cooked away too it volition expect similar this (not also dry). If it looks overly dry, add together a loving cup of water.

Stir inward the Parmesan too Mozzarella (but salvage a fiddling of the mozzarella to sprinkle over the run yesteryear earlier you lot bake it).

 

Now a give-and-take well-nigh the noodles: You tin purpose ANY noodle you lot want, but nosotros actually similar the hardy (thick walled) rigatoni noodles. Boil them inward salted H2O for xv minutes. I purpose one-half a parcel of rigatoni noodles inward this recipe. If you lot are using around other variety of noodle, only eyeball the amount (and boil according to parcel directions).

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

ENJOY !!!

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