Potluck Rigatoni

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

1 pound thin solid set down beef
1 loving cup onion chopped
1 clove garlic minced
14 ounce tin crushed tomatoes
1 fourteen ounce tin water
6 ounce tin Lycopersicon esculentum paste
8 ounce tin Lycopersicon esculentum sauce
1 tablespoon carbohydrate (don't larn out out)
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (don't larn out out)
2 teaspoons dry out basil leaves 
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds (don't larn out out)
1 teaspoon dry out oregano leaves
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
1/2 loving cup grated Parmesan cheese 
Mozzarella cheese grated (as much equally you lot like)
Rigatoni noodles (eyeball this sum - nearly 8 ounces)

Cook the chopped onion inwards a tablespoon of vegetable fossil oil for nearly five minutes or until it starts to scent a footling sweet. Add the garlic together with cook/stir for some other infinitesimal or so, but lookout adult man it then it doesn't burn.

Stir the solid set down beef into the onion-garlic together with ready until  the meat is no longer pink. Drain well together with addthe crushed tomatoes, Lycopersicon esculentum paste, Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, water, carbohydrate together with spices. 

Stir good together with simmer SLOWLY for an hr together with a one-half (stirring i time inwards a while). After an hr together with a half, most of the liquid should convey cooked away together with it volition await similar this (not likewise dry). If it looks overly dry, add together a loving cup of water.

Stir inwards the Parmesan together with Mozzarella (but salve a footling mozzarella to sprinkle over the transcend earlier you lot bake it).

Now a give-and-take nearly the noodles: You tin role ANY noodle you lot want, but nosotros actually similar the hardy (thick walled) rigatoni noodles. Boil them inwards salted H2O until they are ALMOST done (about 2-3 minutes earlier they are totally cooked). They volition ready the residuum of the means inwards the sauce.

I role one-half a parcel of rigatoni noodles inwards this recipe. If you lot are using some other form of noodle, but eyeball the amount.

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

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

ENJOY !!!