Creamyspaghettiandbeansrachaelray Recipes

CREAMY SPAGHETTI AND BEANS - RACHAEL RAY

Steps:

• Place the stock in a sauce pot and warm it over medium heat then reduce to simmer.
• Heat the extra-virgin olive oil and the butter in a large, deep skillet over medium to medium-high heat.
• Add the pancetta to brown slightly.
• Next add the garlic and spaghetti and toast the noodles lightly, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add onions and carrots, bay and thyme and season with salt and pepper.
• Soften veggies a bit, 5 minutes.
• Add wine and allow it to be completely absorbed.
• Add beans then add a few ladles of stock and stir the pasta.
• Keep adding stock a few ladles at a time allowing liquids to be mostly absorbed before adding more, as if you were preparing a risotto.
• When liquids are absorbed and spaghetti is cooked to al dente, 12-15 minutes, stir in cheese.
• Adjust salt and pepper.
• Turn off heat and stir another minute. Remove the bay and thyme stems.
• Serve in shallow bowls and garnish with lots of parsley.

RACHAEL RAY'S SUNDAY GRAVY AND MACARONI (SPAGHETTI, REALLY)

Steps:

• Heat water for pasta to boil. Salt and cook pasta 7 to 8 minutes, to al dente.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
• Sauce: Heat a deep skillet or medium heavy bottomed sauce pot over medium high heat. Season pork chops with salt and pepper. Quarter the sausages. Add 1 tablespoon, 1 turn of the pan, extra-virgin olive oil to pan or pot. Place chops in pan or pot and brown 2 minutes on each side, remove. Add another tablespoon oil, 1 turn of the pan, and sausages. Brown sausages 2 minutes on each side and transfer to plate with pork. Add pepper flakes, chopped garlic and onion to the pot and sauté 1 minute - be very careful as the pepper flakes will burn pretty quickly.
• Add broth to the pan and scrape up drippings. Add crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, water, sugar and herbs and bring sauce to a bubble. Add meats back to the pot and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer sauce until ready to serve, 12 to 15 minutes (this is the spot where you could really simmer the sauce for a couple of hours more or less if you wanted to).
• Meatballs: Combine ground meat, egg, remaining 2 cloves chopped garlic, 1/3 cup cheese, and bread crumbs. Season with salt and pepper and roll into balls, 1 1/2 to 2 inches in diameter. Place balls on nonstick cookie sheet. Roast meatballs 10 minutes, then slide into Sunday sauce and turn off oven.
• To serve, place pork, sausages and meatballs on serving dish. Pour 1/2 of the sauce into a serving dish to ladle over pasta and meats at the table. Toss cooked spaghetti with remaining sauce in sauce pot, adding a few handfuls of grated cheese to the pot as you toss it. Transfer pasta to a serving dish.