Elevate a pasta toss from the usual noodle-and-tomato sauce number to something special, without a lot of extra work. Our rich sauce comes from blue cheese salad dressing — the perfect partner for ground beef.
Beef, blue cheese and penne toss
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PREP TIME
6 min
Makes
4 servings
* PLUS Cooking time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 454-g pkg penne or fusilli pasta
- 1 onion
- olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves , or 1 1/2 tsp bottled chopped garlic
- 2 roasted red peppers
- 500 g lean ground beef
- 1/2 tsp hot red-chili flakes , optional
- 1/2 cup blue cheese salad dressing
- Pinch salt
- Pinch freshly ground pepper
- 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese , optional
Instructions
- Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. Add pasta and cook according to package directions until al dente, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, finely chop onion. Lightly coat a large frying pan with oil and set over medium heat. When hot, add onion and garlic. Stir often until onion starts to soften, 3 minutes. Meanwhile, pat peppers dry with paper towels and slice into thin strips. Crumble beef into pan. Using a fork, stir mixture frequently until no pink remains, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in peppers and chili flakes.
- When pasta is cooked, drain well. Add to pan. Stir in salad dressing, salt and pepper until mixed. Spoon into bowls. Crumble cheese overtop.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 614,
- Protein
- 30.9 g,
- Carbohydrates
- 50.4 g,
- Fat
- 31.6 g,
- Fibre
- 3.4 g,
- Sodium
- 668 mg.
