Entree: Calzone Pie
Source of Recipe
www.mit.edu
List of Ingredients
Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
2 lbs ricotta cheese
1 pkg non-spaghetti pasta (I used radiatore... looks like those
Escher creatures that roll up into a ball.)
1 small can tomato sauce (or larger, depending on your tastes)
Optional:
Garlic, oregano, etc. to taste
Grated mozzarella cheese in conjunction with the ricotta
An ounce or two of pepperoni or kielbasa or some other "pungent"
meat in conjunction with the ground beef
Eggplant or zucchini to replace meat for kosher/vegetarian variation
Recipe
Brown meat (and spices and/or pepperoni/kielbasa) and boil water for pasta. Cook pasta until al dente. Mix meat and cheese, in a large pan,and add cooked pasta. Spread evenly throughout pan. Drizzle tomato sauce on top (and more spices, if desired), and bake for 20 or 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until cheese is just starting to turn brown
(or if most of the cheese is covered by tomato sauce, until the sauce is bubbling).
Serves a lot of people. :o]
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Notes:
I used a 15 oz. can of tomato sauce, which was enough to easily cover up everything. Tomato paste could also be added, or tomato puree; spaghetti sauce could also be used, I guess, but it's a little too salty in my opinion.
Cooking time: 20-30 minutes to prepare, another 20-30 minutes to bake in oven.
And, hey, you only need four ingredients!
Cleanup: you really "only" need three pots for this dish; a frying pan for the meat, a pot to cook the pasta, and a pan for the whole thing.
Ricotta cheese doesn't tend to congeal on pots and pans, so it's not too difficult to clean up.
Taste: well... I made this for our floor dinner and it was almost completely gone... so I guess people liked it. :o]
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