Beef Ragu

Oh my yummy! Whats better than a delicious home cooked meal?. This sauce is so good!

Its easy too, just brown your roast over high heat and then add all the ingredients to a crockpot, turn the temperature to high, cover and let it cook for 6 hours.

This should be served with pappardalle noodles as these noodles make a great pair up with the beef ragu, the noodles are thick and somewhat wide and will help the sauce adhere to every delish bite. In the event you can not find pappardelle noodles at your local grocery store feel free to use any wide egg noodle, theyll do the trick.

This recipe makes enough sauce for 8-10, half or quarter the recipe if you like.

I froze my left-over sauce, now I have a fabulous sauce to serve the next time I have company over.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 pounds chuck roast, cut into 4 chunks
• 1/2 white onion, chopped
• 2 celery stalks, chopped
• 1/2 cup carrots, chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 large can (28oz) tomato puree
• 2 cans petite diced tomatoes with juices
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp dried rosemary (fresh minced rosemary can be used here instead)
• 3 bay leaves
• 1/2 cup red wine, preferably a Cabernet
• 2 cups beef broth

Process

1. In a large saut pan heat the olive oil to high
2. Add the beef chunks to the pan
3. Over high heat brown the meat on both sides (watch the meat closely as not to burn it, you are only browning it well to lock in the juices here) Remember you are not cooking the meat through at this point.
4. Set the meat aside
5. Add all other ingredients to your crock pot
6. Combine all well
7. Layer the beef chunks, press them down a bit to cover with the sauce mixture
8. Cover
9. Cook on high 6 hours
10. Now is a good time to cook your noodles, remember to make them al dente.
11. Remove the meat from the crockpot
12. When cool enough shred the beef into bite size pieces
13. Mix the beef back into the crockpot
14. Serve the sauce over prepared noodles

Enjoy!

This is really good topped with freshly shaved Parmesan cheese

Add some chile flakes for spice too if you like