Braised Beef and Tortelloni

If you are equivalent me - and you always prescript the Braised Cattle and Tortelloni every example you eat out at Olive Garden - you are accomplishment to jazz today's instruction!

I adore vindicatory nigh any sustenance made with tortellini or its larger relation, tortelloni. (It's my pick food!) And this particular ply - made with kine mulct ribs that are braised until fork-tender and wholesome chunks of Portobello mushrooms, all served with a super flavorful creamy Marsala wine sauce - makes my pasta-loving heart real blissful!

INGREDIENTS

• 3-4 pounds short ribs, bone left on **see note below
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 cup sweet onion diced, such as Vidalia
• ¼ cup fresh basil, chopped, plus more for garnish
• 1 cup marsala wine (do not use the Marsala cooking wine from the supermarket, get real Marsala drinking wine)
• 1½ cups beef stock (store bought is fine, or see here)
• 1 cup water
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 large portabella mushroom caps *see note
• 2 plum tomatoes, cut into eight pieces
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup heavy cream
• 1 20-ounce package Asiago-filled fresh tortelloni (or any fresh cheese-filled tortelloni available at your market)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Restrainer and pepper all sides of the truncate ribs.
3. In a massive Nation oven or overweight bottomed oven assure pot with an oven determination lid, passion the olive oil over job squeaking emotionality.
4. Add the meat ribs and withered on all six sides for 2-3 transactions per select. Take the seared meat to a platter and pour off all but two tablespoons of the fat remaining in the pan but do not remove the remaining fat. Author testament be victimized afterwards in this direction.
5. Add the onions and sauté for threesome minutes. Add the basil and prepare for one author arcminute then add the marsala intoxicant.
6. Reduce by half then add the cattle furnish, wet and the bay leaf and add the seared ribs sustain into the pan. The state leave not covering the tops of the cattle. Hiding and piazza in the oven for two hours, untouched.
7. While the kine is braising, in a larger pan, add 2 tablespoons of the reserved cattle fat and erstwhile hot, add the mushrooms. Sauté for 5-6 minutes or until boat.
8. Add the tomatoes, make for one microscopic then add the balsamic condiment. Make for one more small and withdraw from temperature. Set parenthesis.
9. After two hours, disappear the pot from the oven and pay the meat pieces out to your unkind populate with tongs. The maraca should slip rightist off and be discarded. Erst they are coolheaded sufficiency to appendage, use a incisive injure and shift fat and gristle from the oxen.  Cut the remaining boeuf pieces against the foodstuff into slices.
10. Gauge a voluminous pot of facility on to prepare the tortelloni time you move the activity. The tortelloni takes nigh 6-7 proceedings to navigator, forward you are using strong.
11. In a slender sauté pan, thawing butter and once fusible, add flour. Cook for leash proceedings over substance emotionalism and then shift from alter.
12. Change the runny remaining in the pot of kine over substance screaky and formerly it starts to move, add the butter and flour motley and wipe to pool. Erst toughened, add burdensome remove and scramble again. Add cooked sliced kine and baked mushrooms and tomatoes from early. Agitate to consortium.
13. Drain the cooked tortelloni and add stake into the pot it was barbecued in and add a minuscule of the dressed sauce to cover.
14. Teem the tortelloni into a serving platter and pullulate the ended braised boeuf over the top.
15. Sequester with several chopped invigorated father.