Recipe ingredients and instructions:Heat 1/4 cup of water to boiling. (I do this in the
microwave.) Add and stir until dissolved:
1 1/2 teaspoon Minor's Roasted Onion Flavor Concentrate
1 tablespoon Minor's Roasted Red Pepper Flavor Concentrate
1/2 teaspoon Minor's Chicken Base
optional: 1/2 to 1 teaspoon Minor's Mushroom Base
1 tablespoon butter*
1 cup sliced mushrooms
Sauté mushrooms and set aside.
2 cups water
1/4 cup Minor's White Wine Cream Sauce Concentrate
Follow instructions on container to make cream sauce. Set aside.
1 pound lean ground beef
1/4 teaspoon EACH of Minor's Sautéed Garlic, Herb de Provence, Roasted Mirepoix, Roasted Onion
Sauté meat until cooked, making certain to blend the concentrates.
Drain any access fat. Add the 1/4 cup water into which you added the
roasted red pepper, etc. Allow to simmer while you complete remaining
steps.
1 cup cottage cheese (I used Breakstone fat free)
1 egg, beaten
1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
optional: chopped parsley
Blend the above ingredients and set aside.
1 9-ounce package of Contadina (kinda fresh, in
refrigerator case at market) fettuccini pasta*
(Cook according to package directions, but omit salt because of the trace amounts of sodium in each of the bases.)
*I now prefer to use olive oil with a bit of butter or ghee added.
Toss cooked pasta with white wine cream sauce. Layer in a baking dish
as follows:
1/2 pasta
1/2 ground beef mixture
mushrooms
cottage cheese mixture
1/2 ground beef mixture
remaining pasta
Bake 350º oven for 45 minutes to an hour.
Serve with top sprinkled with fresh-grated parmesan cheese.
*I usually double the amount of pasta. I prefer a higher ratio of
pasta to sauce. You know your own tastes, so prepare accordingly.
ALTERNATIVE: In a hurry? Forget the egg and cottage cheese.
Toss the hot pasta with some garlic butter and the mozzarella cheese.
(The ONLY way I can get pasta to clump around my fork when I twirl it!)
Then let your family or guests help themselves to the pasta, mushrooms,
ground beef mixture, and roasted red pepper sauce.
NOTE: You can use lasagna noodles if you wish. I don't like
the dried packaged kind. If I'm using dried, I like Montalcina 100%
durum semolina angel hair pasta (sold in this area at Sam's
Club).
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