Creamy Beef and Pasta
Here’s a delicious casserole that will feed a crowd. The ingredient list is long, but it comes together easy enough, one step at a time.
Creamy Beef and Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 # ground beef
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 1 can chopped mushrooms
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 2 tsp paprika smoked if you have it
- 1 Tbsp of flour
- 1 cup beef broth
- 2 cups of tomato sauce
- 1 cup of heavy cream
- Salt and pepper to taste start with 1 tsp of each
- 4 oz of shredded white cheese Mozzarella, Provolone, or Monterey Jack.
- 12-16 oz of pasta penne, rigatoni, or rotini
Instructions
- Start the water for the pasta, cook the pasta to al dente while working on the rest of the casserole.
- Brown the ground beef in a large skillet with a little oil
- While the beef is browning process the onion and garlic.
- When the beef is done, remove it to a plate
- Add the oil and butter to the skillet, and then sauté the onion until soft.
- Add the garlic and stir until fragrant.
- Drain the chopped mushrooms and add – you can reserve the mushroom water for making your beef broth.
- Add the basil and paprika and stir through
- Add the flour and stir through for 2-3 minutes to cook it a little
- Add the beef broth and stir through until smooth
- Add the tomato sauce and cream and stir through until smooth and uniform
- Add the salt and pepper and stir through.
- Add the browned beef back into the sauce and stir through.
- Add the cheese and stir through until melted.
- Add the cooked pasta and serve
- Garnish with some fresh parsley