Pork Ragù Over Creamy Mashed Potatoes
with Peas, Carrots & Crispy Fried Onions
- Milk
- Wheat
In this savory and satisfying dish, ground pork is cooked with sweet carrots and peas, fragrant garlic, and a speedy mirepoix paste for a complex and delicious ragù in no time at all. Piled over buttery mashed potatoes swirled with crème fraîche and sprinkled with crispy golden fried onions, this hearty meal is bursting with flavor. Buon appetito!
Ingredients
12 ounce
Potatoes
1 unit
Tomato Paste
6 ounce
Carrot
4 ounce
Peas
2 tablespoon
Crème Fraîche
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
1 clove
Garlic
1 tablespoon
Italian Seasoning
1 ounce
Mirepoix Paste
10 ounce
Ground Pork
1 unit
Crispy Fried Onions
(Contains: Wheat)
Not included in your delivery
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Wash and dry produce. • Dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces. • Place potatoes in a medium pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 10-12 minutes. Reserve ½ cup potato cooking liquid, then drain. Return potatoes to pot and keep covered off heat until Step 4.
• While potatoes cook, trim, peel, and dice carrots into ½-inch pieces. Peel and mince or grate garlic.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add carrots; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until slightly softened, 2-3 minutes. • Add pork*, garlic, tomato paste, Italian Seasoning, salt, and pepper. Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until pork is browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. • Reduce heat to medium. Add peas, stock concentrate, and ½ cup plain water (¾ cup for 4 servings); cook, stirring, until thickened and flavors meld, 2-3 minutes. Stir in mirepoix paste. (TIP: If ragù becomes too thick, stir in splashes of water.) Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Return pot with drained potatoes to stovetop over low heat. Add crème fraîche and 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings). Mash until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as needed. Season to taste with salt and pepper. • Divide mashed potatoes between shallow bowls. Using the back of a spoon, create a well in mashed potatoes; top with ragù. Sprinkle with crispy fried onions and serve.
Ground Pork is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 160°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many enjoyed the dish, comparing it to shepherd's pie. Some found it bland; consider boosting tomato and garlic flavors 🍲.
- Ease of prep: Quick and easy to make, with simple prep work. Cook carrots longer for softer texture.
- Suggestions: Add a splash of red wine or balsamic vinegar to enrich the sauce. Consider caramelizing onions instead of using crispy fried ones.
- Portions: Several mentioned needing more potatoes to balance the ragu. Increase potato quantity for better ratio.
- Texture: The crispy onions added a nice crunch, though some preferred without. Ensure carrots are diced small for even cooking.
Reviews from our home cooks
We liked this OK. Very generous portions (I saved half of mine for lunch the next day). Not a lot of flavor, but the combination of the ragu over the mashed potatoes is pretty good. Very filling. Had to use my own garlic because they sent a tiny, shriveled clove.
You can keep this new selection in the rotation of offerings. Easy and delicious. I liked the peas, especially since they are seldom in the recipes. One thing though, there could have been just a bit more potatoes to match up with the ragu.
This came out really flavorful and delicious, prepwork was simple and didn't use too many pots and pans. 11/10 would order again. If I had to change anything, I felt like I diced the carrots small but they were still pretty firm at the end of the cook time, and I went to the max.
This was a little time-consuming but still tasty to make, it was worth it & I would make it again. I added celery & onion to the carrots though, since the peas were kinda minimal :-/ and more veg is always better!
This was a good meal, not one of the best - but definitely good. Only one complaint - the crispy onions are terrible! Greasy with no taste. To me they are just a waste - they go in the trash without opening now that we've tasted a couple of packages of them.
Very good, new meal. Filling and hearty. I think it would have been better if there was more Ragu sauce. It was a little dry.
Great flavor and easy to make. I always cook the carrots a little longer just to make sure they are nice and soft.
The crispy onions made this a 4 star. You would not think they would make that much of a difference but they do!
I thought all of those different ingredients would overpower each other but that recipe was so good and easy to fix. My husband even enjoyed it.
Need a better ratio of potatoes to meat. Right now there's not enough potatoes. The carrots should maybe cook for longer to get softer, and the ragu needs more tomato sauce (right now it's basically ground pork)
