Greek pasta

Submitted by Vicki in AZ

"Nice twist to a simple pasta dish. So easy! I can see doing this for a big crowd with a great bread, huge salad and grilled veges. I had this last night at a friend's. She thinks she got it out of a fairly recent issue of Bon Appetit, but can't verify because she hand wrote it on an envelope."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4-5

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 lb ground sirloin or 1 lb ground turkey
• 2 large onions, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1⁄3 cup dry red wine
• 2 tomatoes, diced
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 8 ounces penne or 8 ounces rigatoni pasta
• freshly grated parmesan cheese
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Heat oil in heavy large pot over high heat.
2. Add meat and onions and saute until brown and season with salt and pepper.
3. Reduce heat to medium and add cinnamon, cayenne and cloves and saute 5 minutes.
4. Add wine, tomatoes and tomato sauce and simmer until thick.
5. Better if it sits overnight and is rewarmed.
6. Serve over cooked pasta.

Reviews

[Stacky5]

We really liked this. It was a good mix of sweet (from the cinnamon & cloves) along with a little heat from the cayenne pepper. Very tasty. I think next time, I'll try a little sweeter wine, just for our own preference. All in all, it was a very easy recipe to make and 3 out of 4 kids gave it a thumbs up (and you can add my own thumbs up to that statistic...) Thank you for sharing!

 

[windhorse23]

Sorry, I just didn't think it was anythingspecial. It reminded me of cincinnati chili because of the spices. I did appreciate the use of cayenne. But I won't be making this again.

 

[Mysterygirl]

I served this to my parents who were visiting and they were very impressed...can't wait to try this myself.

 

[chia2160]

this was very good. i served some over pasta but used the rest to stuff and bake zucchini. i used feta cheese to make it more authentic. and i took your advice and made it the day before to let the flavors blend