Red Pepper and Gherkin Meat Sauce with Pasta

I bought ground beef this morning not knowing what to cook with it.

A short Google search brought up an interesting combination of veggies and beef and that was the recipe to try. But I made it my way.

Serve it with pasta or rice

Recipe for 3:

350 g ground lean beef

1 red onion, 2 garlic cloves, 1 green onion

2 tbsp olive oil

2 red bell peppers

3 tbsp tomato paste

150 ml tomato passata

6 medium gherkins

75 ml gherkin brine

75 ml chicken stock

1 tsp sugar

Salt, pepper, tomato seasoning, Italian seasoning

Start with onions and garlic in a medium hot pan with oil. Gradually toss in the red peppers. Season and give it 5 min. Take it out of the pan.

A bit more oil and now brown the beef and season it. Srape a free space in the middle and add tomato paste and cook it a bit. Now in with gherkin brine, chicken stock and tomato passata.

Start the pasta or rice now.

Pour the veggies back in and add diced gherkins

Sugar and more seasoning now. Let it cook open to reduce the liquid a bit. 

Top with some grated Grana Padano