Penne pasta with vegetable and meat sauce

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 312.6
  • Total Fat: 16.4 g
  • Cholesterol: 42.8 mg
  • Sodium: 125.8 mg
  • Total Carbs: 25.1 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 2.0 g
  • Protein: 14.5 g

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Introduction

Easy pasta dinner in less than an hour. Easy pasta dinner in less than an hour.
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    Barilla penne pasta
    3 oz red wine
    1 lbs. lean ground beef
    Onions, raw, 3 tbsp chopped
    Classico Spicy Red Pepper tomato sauce, 1 cup
    Barilla Penne, 8 oz
    Mushrooms, fresh, 1 cup, pieces or slices
    Green Peppers (bell peppers), 1 cup, chopped
    Olive Oil, 2 tbsp
    Oregano, ground, 1 tps
    Bay Leaf, 1 tsp, crumbled
    *Cheese - Parmasean Grated 1Tablespoon


Tips

Great with a fresh garden salad.


Directions

Saute 3 tablespoons of onion. Once onions are tender add in the ground beef and season with salt and pepper and add bay leaf. Cook over medium heat for 3 minutes. Add wine and cook until browned. Add the chopped peppers cook 2 minutes and add the chopped mushrooms and cook 3 minutes more. Turn heat down and simmer for 5 minutes. Boil water in pot. Enough to add 1 pkg. of the Barilla penne pasta. Bring water to a boil and season with salt. Add pasta and cook to your preference.
Drain pasta and put back in pot. Add the meat/vegetable sauce to the pasta and combine until the sauce has coated the pasta. Sprinkle with Parmasean cheese.


Serving Size: 8 servings

Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user CAPRICORN0120.