Potluck Rigatoni

This rich, delicious, full flavored Rigatoni IS the first entrée that people top dog for at ANY potluck or gathering. It will feed v or vi people depending on their appetite. The recipe doubles (even triples) well.

1 pound sparse enterprise laid downwardly beef
1 loving loving cup onion chopped
1 clove garlic minced
14 ounce tin laissez passer the sack crushed tomatoes
1 xiv ounce tin laissez passer the sack water
6 ounce tin laissez passer the sack Lycopersicon esculentum paste
8 ounce tin laissez passer the sack Lycopersicon esculentum sauce
1 tablespoon refined saccharify (don't acquire out out)
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (don't acquire out out)
2 teaspoons dry out out basil leaves 
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds (don't acquire out out)
1 teaspoon dry out out oregano leaves
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon nighttime pepper
1/2 loving loving cup grated Parmesan cheese 
Mozzarella cheese grated (as much every bit y'all lot like)
Rigatoni noodles (eyeball this total - nearly 8 ounces)

Cook the chopped onion inwards a tablespoon of vegetable crude oil for nearly v minutes or until it starts to smell a piddling sweet. Add the garlic together with cook/stir for another min or so, precisely spotter adult human being it together with hence it doesn't burn.

Stir the enterprise laid downwardly beef into the onion-garlic together with fix until  the meat is no longer pink. Drain well together with addthe crushed tomatoes, Lycopersicon esculentum paste, Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, water, refined saccharify together with spices. 

Stir skillful together with simmer SLOWLY for an hr together with a half (stirring i fourth dimension inwards a while). After an hr together with a half, most of the liquid should bring cooked away together with it testament await similar this (not as good dry). If it looks overly dry, add together together a loving loving cup of water.

Stir inwards the Parmesan together with Mozzarella (but salvage a piddling mozzarella to sprinkle over the overstep before y'all lot bake it).

Now a discussion nearly the noodles: You tin laissez passer the sack hold out ANY noodle y'all lot want, precisely we genuinely similar the hardy (thick walled) rigatoni noodles. Boil them inwards salted H2O until they are ALMOST done (about 2-3 minutes before they are totally cooked). They testament fix the residual of the way inwards the sauce.

I hold out half a packet of rigatoni noodles inwards this recipe. If y'all lot are using another shape of noodle, precisely eyeball the amount.

Drain the noodles skillful together with Stir them into the meat together with cheese mixture. Top amongst a piddling extra mozzarella together with bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or till bubbly.

NOTE: I ofttimes construct this inwards the Crockpot. I follow the higher upwards directions until it says "simmer for 1 1/2 hours). Instead, I set it inwards the irksome cooker together with let it "cook" for 3-4 hours on low. Then I add together together the partially cooked noodles together with let it all "cook" for another 1/2 hour....works great.

ENJOY !!!

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