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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a large stockpot or dutch oven over medium heat, saute the carrots, celery, onion and shallot for 4-5 minutes until softened. Add the minced garlic and saute for one minute longer. | 2. Turn heat to medium high. Move vegetables to side of pot and add ground beef in batches and brown. When all ground beef has been added to pot and browned, add Italian seasoning, crushed red pepper, salt, and black pepper. Thoroughly combine meat, vegetables and seasonings. | 3. Add crushed tomatoes, tomato paste and roasted red peppers. Pour some of broth into cans to clean out remaining tomatoes into pot. Pour remaining broth into pot and thoroughly combine with all other ingredients. Add more black pepper or crushed red pepper if you like it hot and spicy. | 4. Reduce heat to low and simmer until sauce has reduced to half or two thirds of original volume. | 5. Serve over your favorite pasta and top with grated cheese if you like. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
extra virgin olive oil	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
carrot	2		peeled chopped	104.96	24.5248	2.3808	0.6144
celery rib	2		chopped	-	-	-	-
onion	1/2		chopped sweet	30.0	7.005	0.825	0.075
shallot	1		minced	115.2	26.88	4.0	0.16
garlic clove	4		minced	17.88	3.9672	0.7632	0.06
beef	2 1/2		ground lean	1326.003	0.0	261.4606	30.4867
italian herb seasoning	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
red pepper flake	1/2	teaspoon	dried	-	-	-	-
kosher salt	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1/2	teaspoon	ground	2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
tomato	28	ounces	crushed	182.5707	40.4831	9.5254	1.5876
tomato paste	6	ounces		139.4795	32.1653	7.3482	0.7995
red pepper	1/2	cup	roasted chopped	30.0	6.6075	1.4025	0.33
beef broth	32	ounces		63.5029	0.3629	10.3419	1.9958

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.