Pasta With Ground Beef and Yoghurt

"Quick, easy and tasty. Yoghurt and beef can be prepared ahead so dinner is ready in the time you'll need to cook the pasta. Use roasted garlic for the cooked garlic in the recipe if you have on hand. - This is my variation from a turkish recipe. The yoghurt should be very mild and creamy rich, like Greek yoghurt, not tart or runny, or the dish will be too tart."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Bring a small amount of salted water to a boil, add garlic with skin on and cook for 5-8 minutes. Drain and rinse. Slip from skins and crush with a press or a fork.
  • Stir yoghurt with salt and crushed garlic in a bowl until smooth, set aside.
  • Bring salted water for the pasta to a boil. Peel onions. Finely grate onions or chop onions in the food processor to a pulp.
  • Heat butter for the beef in a skillet. Add beef, chili, onions, salt and pepper and cook over high heat, crumbling and browning the meat, about 10 minutes.
  • While frying the meat, cook pasta until done, drain. In another small pan melt butter for the topping and stir in paprika and cayenne.
  • When meat is browned and cooked through and pasta is ready, give a portion of pasta on a plate, top with some of the meat, spoon a portion of the yoghurt over it and drizzle with some of the melted butter. Serve with a green salad on the side.

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Reviews

  1. YUM ...... Added a layer of baby spinach between the pasta and meat. Thank you.
     
  2. Delicious, made it with some spicy harissa seasoning instead of chilli pepper and served it with quinoa, a green salad and ciabatta. The spicy seasoned butter finishes the dish beautifully and the yoghurt tempers the heat & brings an extra texture.
     
  3. Really enjoyed this! Would have been even better if I had had Greek Yogurt instead of regular. Still delicious! Thanks!
     
  4. Loved this recipe - was very easy. I left out the chili pepper and just added some more cayenne. As a nursing Mom, I can't eat tomatoes, so this is a great creamy beef/pasta recipe alternative! Will make it again.
     
  5. Really good and DH loved it. I used lean ground beef to which I omitted the chili pepper and added some Recipe #79179 as well as a little chopped fresh parsley and mint near the end of cooking. Being lean it got a bit dry, would use some oil next time. To the yogurt mixture I also added a small bit of the chopped mint, fresh lemon juice and grated English cucumber. Though I could leave the cucumber out and it would be good too. I just put butter on the pasta, as I didn't have paprika or cayenne.
     
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Hi, I am German and I live with my husband Thorsten (Chef Thorsten)in the former German capital Bonn, a rather small town near Cologne at the river Rhine. I work in a teashop (a TeaGschwendner franchise shop, see my web site link) situated in a quaint little old house in the center of Bonn and like it a lot. I enjoy to make myself comfortable with a cup of tea and a book (an old cookbook is good).
 
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