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Mushroom-Beef Pasta Sauce

The Pasta with Meat Sauce and Mushrooms is a flavorful autumnal dish, rich in taste, perfect for Sunday lunch or a dinner during the fall or winter season. A recipe you'll love from the very first bite.
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Mushroom-Beef Pasta Sauce
  • Difficulty Moderate
  • Prep 15 minutes
  • Cook 1 hour
  • Servings 4 people

The Mushroom Ragù Pasta is a tasty autumnal dish rooted in Italy’s tradition. It combines the world’s most beloved sauce, the meat ragù, with one of the hallmark ingredients of the fall season: mushrooms.

With our recipe for Pasta with Meat Sauce and Mushrooms, you’ll be serving incredibly flavorful tagliatelle with meat and mushroom sauce, perfect for a lunch or dinner on those chilly, damp autumn or winter days. This pasta with mushrooms will certainly captivate you and your guests from the very first bite. You can choose to use fresh mushrooms, dried mushrooms, or frozen mushrooms, and in every case, you’ll achieve a perfect mushroom pasta.

We chose a blend of frozen mushrooms, which, thanks to the variety of mushrooms included, offers a unique and diverse flavor. Thus, you can achieve a sauce featuring porcini mushrooms, honey fungus, and chanterelles, creating a true explosion of tastes.

Feel free to accompany these tagliatelle with meat and mushroom sauce with a generous sprinkling of Parmesan Cheese. And, for a touch of freshness, a bit of chopped fresh parsley.

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. To prepare Pasta with Mushroom Sauce start by making a minced celery, carrots and onions and sauté them in a pot with a drizzle of olive oil and a clove of garlic. When the vegetables have sautéed add the ground meat.

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  2. Salt, pepper and sauté over a high flame, blending with half a glass of white wine (or red wine to taste).

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  3. Add the frozen mushrooms and cook, stirring well until slightly tender.

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  4. Now add a teaspoon of tomato paste, tomato pulp, a little rosemary, a few sage leaves, a pinch of sugar, stir it all together and cook on a gentle heat for about 1 hour.

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  5. When the meat sauce is ready cook the tagliatelle pasta (they’re like almost noodles; you can also use spaghetti) in plenty of hot salted water, drain them al dente, add them to the meat sauce and mix well.

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  6. Once the tagliatelle are mixed well with the meat sauce here is your Pasta al Ragù con i Funghi is ready to be served and enjoyed accompanied by a nice sprinkling of grated Parmesan cheese.

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Tips

For this type of sauce we recommend using a long pasta such as Tagliatelle, Pappardelle, Fettuccine or Reginette. However, you can use the pasta format you like best.

Storage

Mushroom Sauce Pasta can be kept in the refrigerator for up to a day without any problem. You can then reheat them in a pan with a drizzle of olive oil.