Levantine Spiced Beef & Creamy Pasta

Ingredients

• Ground Beef — 2lb 85/15 organic ($12.00)
• Tomato Sauce — 6 Tbsp flavor builder ($0.20)
• Whole Wheat Pasta — 1lb linguine or rotini ($2.00)
• Plain Full Fat Yogurt — 2.5 cups 750g ($3.50)
• Tahini — 0.5 cup creamy base ($2.50)
• Onion — 2 medium diced ($0.50)
• Pine Nuts — 0.25 cup toasted ($1.50)
• Olive Oil — 3 Tbsp sauté/pasta ($0.25)
• Garlic — 2 cloves crushed for sauce ($0.10)
• Dried Mint — 4 tsp ($0.10)
• Lemon — 0.5 squeeze ($0.05)
• Spices — 1 batch 2 tsp allspice 1 tsp cinnamon 3 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper ($0.25)
• Fresh Mint and Lemon — as needed garnish ($0.50)

Instructions

1. 1Sauté and Brown — Sauté diced onions in 1 tbsp olive oil until soft. Add ground beef cooking until browned and dry. Stir in tomato sauce allspice cinnamon salt and pepper. Remove from heat.
2. 2Boil Pasta — Boil pasta in salted water until al dente. Drain save 1/2 cup pasta water and toss with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and the saved water.
3. 3Whisk Sauce — In a bowl fork-whisk yogurt tahini crushed garlic dried mint lemon squeeze and salt until creamy.
4. 4Assemble — Layer pasta and beef into containers. Drizzle with yogurt sauce and garnish with toasted pine nuts and fresh mint.