Brazilian

Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce)

Name: Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce)
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 1 lb pasta; 1 lb ground beef; 1 onion; 3 garlic cloves; 2 cups tomato sauce; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 1/3 cup parmesan cheese; 1.5 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Rafael @rafael_sp09

Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Easy

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb pasta
1 lb ground beef
1 onion
3 garlic cloves
2 cups tomato sauce
2 tbsp cooking oil
1/3 cup parmesan cheese
1.5 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Boil the pasta in salted water until just tender, then drain.
Heat the oil in a skillet and saute the diced onion and garlic 3 minutes.
Add the ground beef and cook, breaking it up, 8 minutes until browned.
Stir in the tomato sauce, season with salt and pepper, and simmer 10 minutes.
Toss the pasta with the sauce and serve hot topped with grated parmesan, a naturalized weeknight favorite.

Watch how to cook Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce)

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Serve it with

A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The protein alongside
- Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans)
  
  50 min
What it is eaten with
- Arroz Branco (Brazilian White Rice)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Maionese de Batata (Brazilian Potato Salad)
  
  35 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Bife Acebolado (Steak with Onions)
Gluten	Yes	Caldo Verde (Potato and Collard Green Soup)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 560 kcal
Protein: 25 g
Carbs: 64 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 1000 mg
Saturated fat: 7 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Macarrao com Molho de Carne (Pasta with Meat Sauce) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.