This week I am doing Pasta Braciole! The Pasta Of The Godfather! This is a delicious and filling recipe that should satisfy ANY lover of steak such as myself and I am sure you as well. The recipe can be found below! Enjoy! Check out the article about 31 Science Backed Health Benefits Of Steak as well you will really enjoy it to!

Also on the subject of beef and steak here is an excellent article by my friend Helen Nichols of and she recently wrote an excellent article titled: 31 Science-Backed Health Benefits of Steak. If you LOVE steak as much as I do then you will LOVE this article! Enjoy!

I hope you enjoy it! Cheers!

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Ingredients For Sauce Step One For This Recipe:

I used 2 cartons of Pomi Brand Roma Tomatoes 1 carton strained and 1 carton chopped plus one 14.5oz stewed/sliced italian Roma tomatoes.

8 Cloves of garlic minced.

2 Tbsp of my homemade onion confit. You can use 1/2 to 1 whole onion finely chopped.

1 small piece of bacon or pork shoulder or pork based sausage to contrast the flavor of the beef and slow down the sauce sticking to the sides of the sauce pot.

2 Tbsp. dried Greek oregano bulbs or more to taste.

2 Tbsp. dried basil or more to taste.

1 Tsp. red pepper flakes for flavor and not heat.

2 Tbsp. Extra virgin olive oil.

1 Tsp. Salt.

2 Tbsp. Sugar or honey to cut the acid from the tomatoes. I used honey. (see video)

Method For Making The Sauce:

1. Pour all of your tomatoes into your sauce pot and then bring to a boil. Once at a boil bring to a simmer.

2. Add all of the other ingredients one at a time and stir them into the sauce well before adding the next ingredient.

3. Allow this sauce to simmer for at least 30 minutes. At end of 30 minutes stir the sauce and allow to keep simmering and while it continues to simmer go make your Braciole.

NOTE: You will need to have some artichoke hearts for searing for this dish. I use prepared hearts in a jar with water but you can use the one’s in oil if you wish and frozen will work just as well.

Ingredients For Braciole:

2 1/2 Lbs minimum piece of flank steak. (flank steak is fairly tender but I use a meat mallet and gently use the flat side of the mallet on the steak first to flatten it out a bit more and then I use the textured side of the mallet gently all over the steak to break up any connective tissue and allow the meat to get really tender from the simmering.)

Olive oil to coat the meat.

Enough fresh or dried basil to cover the flank.

Enough fresh or dried oregano to cover the flank.

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