One Pot Pasta With Beefy Ragu

Busy day? Are you scratching your watch and winding your head? I got the super easiest one pot pasta for you. The meat ragu is so yummy, the fam will think you spent all day cooking, but is so freakin' easy to whip up in a hurry.  Chop a quick salad while it cooks and slice up a fluffy loaf of Italian bread and dinner is done in no time.

One Pot Pasta With Beefy Ragu:

1 lb ground beef, no more than 20% fat. You can substitute ground turkey or pork. 

1 lb spiral pasta

40 ounces filtered or bottled water (chlorine is not an ingredient!)

2 - 15 oz cans tomato sauce or tomato puree' (not paste)

1 Tbs each garlic powder, onion powder, Italian seasoning, red pepper flakes. You might want to add more or less of each. I usually do not measure these, just sprinkle a thin layer over the whole pot, but add whatever tastes good to you. 

In a large pan/pot, finely crumble ground meat. Add seasoning and 20 oz of FILTERED or BOTTLED water. Cover and cook on medium heat, stirring occasionally, making sure the meat chunks don't cook together into little patties. When meat is browned and there is a beefy broth going, add tomato product, pasta, remaining water. Stir, cover. Continue to cook on medium until pasta is tender, about twenty to thirty minutes (cooking time with tomato and fat content is longer than just bringing a pot of water to a boil then cooking pasta). This ragu will thicken as it sits and cools a bit due to the starch in the pasta. That's it! Enjoy!