Corsican Beef and Pasta
Total time: 3 hours
This is one of those long-cooking dishes that I love doing during the winter. It's not quite a stew and not quite a pasta. If possible, get 1 or 2 thick slices of dry-cured ham, like Prosciutto, from the meat counter.
Ingredients
- 32oz beef, suitable for braising or stewing 700gr, 24.7oz round, trimmed
- 6oz dry-cured ham, Prosciutto, Serrano 170gr, 6oz
- 1 large onion, 175gr, 6.2oz
- 4oz (125gr) mushrooms, 125gr, 4.4oz
- 4 cloves garlic, 12gr, .43oz
- 15oz (450gr) whole tomatoes, with juices, 425gr, 15oz
- 1 cup white wine, 235gr, 8.3oz **
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 tsp dried Herbes de Provence
- 2 pinches nutmeg
- 1 tbs olive oil, 13.5gr, .48oz
- 8oz (225gr) pasta, spaghetti or linguini, 225gr, 8oz
Instructions
- Cut beef into cubes 1 - 1 1/2" (3cm), and ham a bit smaller.
- Roughly chop onions.
- Trim and chop mushrooms.
- Mince garlic.
- Heat oil in Dutch oven or small soup pot over medium-high heat. Add onions, mushroom and garlic and sauté until starting to brown, about 5 minutes.
- Add ham and beef and sauté, stirring, until all pieces are starting to brown.
- Roughly chop tomatoes and add to pot, along with the juices.
- Add wine, herbs, nutmeg and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to a slow simmer (small bubbles just breaking the surface), cover and let cook for 2 - 3 hours.
- To finish:
- Cook pasta according to package directions, just until al dente.
- Drain and immediately return to pan to low heat.
- Add 1 cup of the sauce from the beef (but no meat) and stir to combine and heat through.
- Arrange the pasta on a small platter or two plates.
- Remove bay leaves. Spoon some beef and ham on top or the pasta and serve.
Note: This serves 4 as is.
For two meals for two: cook half the pasta for each meal or cook it all at once and reheat the remaining half for the second meal by running hot tap water over it.
** The nutrition info assumes that 90% of the alcohol is cooked off after 2 hours
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| Nutrition Information Recipe serves 4 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 3335 / 834 Total Carbohydrates: 204 / 51 Dietary Fiber: 9 / 2.25 Total Fat: 130 / 32.5 Saturated Fat: 46 / 11.5 Cholesterol: 547 / 136..5 Protein: 218 / 54.5 Calcium: 226 / 56.5 Sodium: 4555 / 1138.75 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
