Rigatoni With Southwestern Style Ground Turkey Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, carrot, celery, and oregano and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the beef and garlic and cook, breaking the beef into smaller pieces with a wooden spoon, until the onion and beef are lightly browned, 9 to 10 minutes. Pour in the wine and cook until it is nearly evaporated, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, and zucchini; bring to a simmer and cook, stirring often, until slightly thickened, 2 minutes.
• Stir in the rigatoni, salt, pepper, and 3 cups water; bring to a simmer and cook, stirring often, until the sauce is somewhat thickened, about 18 minutes. Add 1 cup water and continue cooking until the pasta is tender, 9 to 10 minutes more.
• Serve the rigatoni topped with the Romano and basil.

Steps:

• In a saute pan, brown turkey meat until cooked through and set aside.
• In a sauce pot, saute garlic and onion until translucent, about 5-8 minutes.
• Add fresh diced tomatoes and continue to saute for a couple minutes.
• Add tomato sauce, salt and pepper and the rest of the spices and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Stir in meat and continue to simmer lightly for another 5-10 minutes.
• Boil pasta while sauce simmers.
• Top with fresh grated Parmesan cheese to serve.
• **If the sauce starts to thicken too much for your taste, just put the lid on the pot while it simmers until the pasta is done.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cook the pasta according to package directions. Drain the pasta, reserving 1 cup of the pasta cooking liquid.
• Heat the oil in a large deep nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms, turkey, tomatoes, vinegar, onion, crushed red pepper and 3/4 teaspoon salt and cook, stirring and breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon, until the vegetables are soft and the turkey is cooked through, about 8 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of the reserved pasta water, bring to a simmer and cook until the consistency of tomato sauce, about 4 minutes.
• Add the cooked pasta to the turkey-mushroom sauce along with the parsley. Toss to combine; adjust seasoning if needed.
• Transfer the pasta to a serving platter or individual bowls. Sprinkle with the cheese and parsley and serve.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onions, salt. Cook until no longer white and starting to turn translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic; cook about 1 minute. Add chili flakes and blended tomato sauce. Bring to a simmer; adjust heat to medium to medium-low. Simmer gently, stirring occasionally, for 45 to 60 minutes. Reduce heat to low.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook rigatoni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes (5 minutes from doneness).
• Add about 2/3 of the basil to the sauce. Stir in butter. When butter melts, add cheese in 3 increments.
• Drain pasta; transfer to sauce. Stir until rigatoni are evenly coated with sauce. Serve sprinkled with the remaining basil and a dusting of grated cheese.