Recipe - Beef With Funghi Sauce For Pasta

1 pound Beef ( alcatra); into 1/2"
dice
4 Tomatoes;peeled.seeded and
chopped
1 Onion; finely chopped
1 Clove garlic; minced
2 tablespoon Dry funghi ( porcini)
Salt and pepper; to taste
1 cup Heavy cream (optional); or
fresh cream
2 tablespoon Oil

1. Brown meat in oil

2. Add chopped onions and cook until translucent

3. Stir in garlic and cook 1 minute.

4. Add tomatoes, salt and pepper and cook until it dries out.

5. Add One half cup water and simmer covered until almost dry.

6. Keep adding One half cups water whenever almost dry and cook until meat is
tender ( about 2 hours)

7. One hour before end of cooking, wash dried mushroom well and soak them
in warm water for 1 hour.

8. Drain mushrooms and save the liquid.

9. Chop mushrooms and add it along with liquid to the meat.

10. Simmer another half hour.

11. Add cream and serve with noodles

Recipe by: Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky

Posted to EATL Digest by Leon & Miriam Posvolsky miriamp@POBOX.COM on
Nov 19, 1997