Slow cooker beef ragù with pasta
Beef cooked all day until it shreds into a glossy tomato sauce. The kind of pasta you would pay for in a restaurant.
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Ingredients
- Diced beef800 g
- Chopped tomatoes (tin)2 tins
- Brown onions150 g
- Carrots150 g
- Garlic3 cloves
- Tomato purée40 g
- Vegetable stock cubes1 cube
- Pasta400 g
- Italian hard cheese (parmesan-style)40 g
Also uses from the cupboard: table salt, ground black pepper, dried mixed herbs. Missing any? You can add them to your shop on the shopping list.
Usually contains: Celery, Gluten, Milk.
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Estimated from typical ingredient values, counting a teaspoon of cooking oil for each portion. Children's portions are smaller.
Method
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- Finely chop the onion and carrot and put them in the slow cooker with the beef, crushed garlic, tomatoes, tomato purée, crumbled stock cube and a teaspoon of dried herbs.800 g diced beef2 tins chopped tomatoes150 g brown onions150 g carrots3 cloves garlic40 g tomato purée1 cube
- Put the lid on and cook on low for 8 hours.
- Shred the beef into the sauce with two forks and season.
- Cook the pasta, drain, and toss it through the ragù with a splash of the pasta water.400 g pasta
- Serve with the cheese grated over.40 g italian hard cheese
Toss the pasta in the sauce over the heat for a full minute. It soaks up the ragù and stops being sauce on top of pasta.
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