ONE POT Creamy Tomato Beef Pasta

Beef pasta cooked with Italian seasonings in a creamy tomato sauce. The epitome of easy homemade comfort food with the convenience of one-pot cooking!

One Pot Creamy Beef Tomato Pasta

1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
2 garlic cloves, finely minced
1 onion, finely chopped
500g/1 lb beef mince (ground beef)
2 tsp Italian herbs (store bought mix)
2 tbsp tomato paste
400g/ 14 oz can crushed tomatoes
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional)
1 1/2 tsp cooking salt/kosher salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
4 cups (1 L) chicken stock/broth, low sodium
350g/ 12oz fusilli, penne, elbow macaroni or other short pasta
3/4 cups thickened / heavy cream (heavy cream)
SERVING – parmesan

1. Using a large pot, heat oil then cook onion & garlic for 1 1/2 min. Cook beef until you can no longer see red, then add Italian herbs and cook for 30 sec (brings out flavour!). Cook tomato paste for 1 min.
2. Add canned tomato, stock, chilli flakes, salt and pepper. Bring to simmer then add pasta. Once it comes back up to simmer, cook 13 – 15 min on medium high (it should be bubbling, like you are cooking pasta in water), stirring every now and then at the beginning and more towards the end as the sauce thickens so the base doesn’t catch. Reduce heat it needed.
3. Pasta should be just about cooked, but still saucy. Stir in cream, simmer for another minute. Still saucy! Ladle into bowls, garnish with parmesan. By the time you start eating, pasta will have absorbed most sauce but should still be OOZY!

[Saubande]

I love your recipes and have followed you for years. But cooking pasta in the same pot as the sauce is a bridge I’ll never cross.

[brentwarner]

Looks like I have a dinner for my teenage boys to make this week. Can't wait to make!

[TonyaGreenwood]

Made this tonight but didn’t add cream because I didn’t have any and it was still delicious! Will be keeping this recipe for the future! Thanks 😊

[fersuremaybek]

the chicken stock is interesting, i would normally add beef and worcestershire sauce and a teaspoon of sugar
it looks really nice especially with some cheese

[mengjiasi]

I made it tonight! Really an amazing recipe!! My husband and I both love it so much. I've never thought about putting pasta directly into the soup so that I 've never tried that taste pasta. Thank you for this recipe!

[DukeofHesse-hebu]

I almost never cook pasta directly in the sauce because I can better control the ratio of sauce to pasta. If the pasta is cooked very al dente, it will cook the rest of the way in the sauce and absorb the flavors. I like to be in control when I'm cooking.

[lapopotederic]

Hello The pasta looks so creamy & delicious. It looks flavourful. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe.🤗👍👍💖

[mandroidmusic]

thats what im eating this evening, thanx.

[djw]

I made this. It was wonderful. I did add a handout of chopped green olives. Maybe 8, and about three mushrooms. Soo good.

[nayomeer]

I loved this recipe stumbled on it by accident. I was not thinking about one pot dish but this saved me time and incorporated what I was going to cook separately. Was a rainy cold day and this was warm n cozy comfort food. Thanks.

[L_B_M_LandDownUnder]

Everything that is good begins with an onion 😋

[evi-vw]

I used cornstarch with water instead of heavy cream to thicken mine. It turned out amazing.

[highcry]

Yum! so glad I found this recipe, 17 years old and left alone for a month with no cooking skills so this might just save me😂 What can I substitute chicken broth with?

[Irritategaming]

I love this ! It gets quite thick for leftovers though, anyone know the best way to reheat it to make it oozy again?

[larpydwyer]

Perhaps instead of the cream, cream cheese?

[germanbyrabia]

What can I use instead of cream to make this pasta creamy?

[reenajuby]

What could I substitute for cream? Just plain milk is ok?

[crumbz]

I made this and it was soo good I seasoned it well and used a bit of different ingredients tho-

[__loveball]

this looks so delicious, definitely have to try it this week! ❤️

[corglass]

I've a craving for cheesy toast today