Recipe: Tasty Vodka sauce with beef and bacon

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Vodka sauce with beef and bacon. Increase heat to high; add vodka and bring to a boil. Stir in tomatoes, heavy cream, Worcestershire sauce, and red pepper flakes. My Penne alla Vodka with Bacon features a secret ingredient for the best vodka sauce ever!

Vodka sauce with beef and bacon My vodka sauce recipe was born the evening I couldn't find the plain vodka. My hubby was out of town, I was all set to try my. Why add vodka to vodka sauce? You can cook Vodka sauce with beef and bacon using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Vodka sauce with beef and bacon

  1. Prepare of bacon.
  2. You need of ground beef.
  3. You need of can crushed tomatoes.
  4. You need of can fired roasted tomatoes.
  5. You need of vodka.
  6. You need of heavy cream.
  7. Prepare of salt.
  8. Prepare of pepper.
  9. You need of crushed red pepper.
  10. It's of large onion chopped.
  11. It's of garlic chopped.
  12. It's of bay leaf.
  13. You need of cooked pasta.

People often wonder if the addition of vodka is necessary to add to vodka sauce, since only a small amount is used, and the answer is yes! Although only a small amount is added overall the vodka balances the tomatoes and cream out in the sauce. It creates a subtle peppery heat and herbaceous brightness to the sauce. Heat EVOO in a Dutch oven or deep skillet.

Vodka sauce with beef and bacon step by step

  1. Fry the bacon. Remove and set aside to cool. And crumble.
  2. Brown the ground beef in the bacon grease..
  3. While the beef is cooking, chop the onion and garlic.
  4. Drain most of the grease. But leave just enough to cook the onion and garlic until tender..
  5. Add the cans of tomatoes, vodka, salt, pepper, red pepper, bay leaf, and crumbled bacon.
  6. Simmer for 20 min.
  7. Add the heavy cream.
  8. Simmer for 10 min.
  9. Remove bay leaf.
  10. Add to cooked pasta & enjoy!.

Add onions, garlic, bay, chili and thyme; cook to tender. Add vodka then stock, tomatoes and basil. A savory saute of sweet red onions, garlic and bacon is deglazed with vodka and simmered with tomatoes and cream to make an opulent sauce to serve over cooked penne. Meanwhile, in a large pot of salted boiling water, cook the pasta until al dente. Add the pasta to the skillet along with the reserved.