Quick and Easy Penne
Recipe: #317
October 08, 2011
Categories: Ground Beef, Duck, Italian 5 Ingredients Or Less, Beef Dinner, Italian Dinner, Ground Beef Dinner, more
"I needed a quick dish to make for a family get together and this is what I came up with. You can use ground chuck or round instead of the ground sirloin. I had mozzarella cheese on hand but any shredded cheese could be added. "
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (416 g)
- Calories 744.3
- Total Fat - 20.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 7.9 g
- Cholesterol - 96.8 mg
- Sodium - 775.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 98.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 12.8 g
- Sugars - 6.6 g
- Protein - 41.9 g
- Calcium - 148.3 mg
- Iron - 6.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 13.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.5 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Fill Dutch oven approximately half way with cold water and bring to boil. Add penne, stir occasionally, and cook until just tender. Drain pasta and put back in dutch oven.
Step 2
In a large skillet break up ground sirloin and cook until no longer pink. Add to penne in ddutch oven.
Step 3
Add spaghetti sauce and mozzarella cheese, stir gently. Cover and cook until mixture is bubbly and cheese has melted.
Tips
No special items needed.