Boys And Girls Club Baked Pasta Bolognese
From jo_jo_ba 14 years ago
- 280 minutes to make
- Serves 60
A simple, fairly cheap and filling dinner I made up today for the 60 Evening Program participants at the Club: I put together the sauce in the morning and let it simmer for two hours while I made their dessert (ricotta-cherry turnovers! Read more ), then layered it with freshly cooked pasta and pressed, "dry" cottage cheese, popping it all into the oven for an hour and a half so it would be perfectly done by dinnertime! See less
Ingredients
- ¼ cup unsalted butter shopping list
- 3 large onions, finely chopped shopping list
- 2 carrots, finely chopped shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 tbsp olive oil shopping list
- 4 lbs lean ground beef shopping list
- ¼ tsp nutmeg shopping list
- ½ tsp cinnamon shopping list
- ½ tbsp black pepper shopping list
- 1 ½ tbsp italian seasoning shopping list
- 84 oz (3 28-oz cans) thick tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes shopping list
- 1 (6-oz) can tomato paste shopping list
- 2 cups beef broth shopping list
- 2 ½ cups heavy cream shopping list
- 2 lbs frozen (thawed) mixed vegetables, pureed shopping list
- 5 lbs fusilli pasta, cooked just shy of “al dente” and drained shopping list
- 2 lbs pressed “dry” cottage cheese (or ricotta) shopping list
How to make it
- Melt butter in a large stockpot over medium-high heat.
- Add onions and sauté until golden, then add carrots and garlic.
- Cook until carrots begin to soften, about 8-10 minutes.
- Add olive oil and ground beef to the pot, sprinkle with nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper and Italian seasoning.
- Cook, stirring to break up the meat, until the beef is well browned – about 6-7 minutes.
- Stir in tomato sauce, tomato paste, beef broth, heavy cream and pureed vegetables.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to very low and cook, stirring occasionally, 2 - 2 ½ hours.
- Preheat oven to 350F, grease 2 large, deep roasting pans.
- Spread a thin layer of meat sauce in the bottom of each pan, followed by a layer of noodles (about 1/3 of the pot in each pan.
- Sprinkle a layer of cottage cheese overtop the noodles.
- Add the remaining pasta to the sauce in the pot, stirring well to coat.
- Divide the mixed sauce/pasta between the two pans, covering the cheese layer completely.
- Place into the oven and bake 1 ½ hours.
- If desired, sprinkle top of pasta with breadcrumbs and broil 5 minutes further.
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