

Slow-cooked beef ragu sits over wide pappardelle in this frozen meal from Co-op's premium range. The sauce is built from braised beef, tomato, and seasoning, then paired with pasta ribbons that hold onto the meatier bits of sauce. It comes ready to heat from frozen, so the texture lands somewhere between a microwave pasta bake and a chilled deli tray meal, depending on how you cook it. Compared with other Co-op frozen meals, this one leans more towards a plated pasta dish than a one-tray casserole, with the pasta and sauce doing the main work. Pappardelle's wide, flat shape gives each strand enough surface area to carry the ragu properly, and the slow-cooked beef breaks into tender shreds that cling to the pasta.

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