Not strictly Italian but well worth cooking !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ingredients<\/strong> Method<\/strong> Heat olive oil in a pan and sear the meat, add the garlic, bacon and fresh mushrooms, cook app 5 mins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Add the sliced onions and cook until soft, add the wine, passata, cinnamon, rosemary, bay leaves and dried mushrooms with the soaking liquor, season with salt and pepper, cook for about 10 mins then transfer to an oven at 150C for app 2 to 3 hours until the meat is tender and the sauce has thickened, stir after an hour. Remove the cinnamon and bay leaves before serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cook your preferred pasta in salted water, drain and put into a warmed serving dish, pour the stew over the pasta and mix thoroughly. Sprinkle with grated parmesan and serve with extra parmesan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.933.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
30g dried porcini mushrooms (soaked in warm water then chopped)
3 large field mushrooms chopped
4 garlic cloves chopped
2lb braising beef cut into 2cm cubes
5 rashers of bacon cut into strips
Olive oil
2 onions sliced
300ml white wine
Jar or carton of passata
1 stick of cinnamon
2 or 3 bay leaves
Sprig of rosemary
Large tubular pasta, e.g. Pacheri or Rigatoni. Would also work with Pappardelle.
50g grated parmesan
Salt and black pepper<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will need a pan with a lid that works on the hob and can go into the oven.
Soak the dried mushrooms in hot water for app 20 mins then drain and chop, retain the liquor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n