Spaghetti with Mushroom and Tomato Sauce (Quick Mushroom Ragu)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2011, America's Test Kitchen TV

Making a true, long-simmered Italian meat sauce means tending the pot for hours. Is it possible to achieve deep, satisfying flavor in just 30 minutes?

SERVES 4

TIME 1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Using pancetta and its fat in our Spaghetti with Mushroom and Tomato Sauce recipe compensated for the lean nature of the mushrooms and made our mushroom ragu meatier. Portobello mushrooms gave our dish bulk, while smoky porcini gave it conc...

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