The classic dish is made fresh every day in-house at Carrabba's, and the meat sauce is made with fresh ingredients like ground beef and pork, chopped onions, celery and finely chopped carrots.

Bloomin' BrandsCarrabba's Italian Grill / Parent organization Carrabba's Italian Grill (or simply Carrabba's) is an American restaurant chain featuring Italian-American cuisine. It is owned and operated by Bloomin' Brands, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

LUNCH MENU At Carrabba's, we are dedicated to the craft of cooking great food. Everything we do in our open kitchen every day reflects this – from using the freshest ingredients to using time-honored Italian cooking methods such as grilling over a wood fire.

Watts said the gluten-free dishes are made with casarecce pasta, which she described as "a short pasta similar to penne or rotini made with corn, rice and quinoa flour." When Carrabba's launched a new menu in the fall, it added several gluten-free dishes, including the pasta entrees.

This recipe is pretty classic in that it includes diced onions, peppers, garlic, and ground beef. Once the vegetables are softened and the meat is cooked, the pot is deglazed with red wine. From there, the base of the sauce is enhanced with tomato paste, seasonings, and some subtle flavor enhancers.

Season ground beef with salt and pepper. In a large skillet, add the beef and chopped onion and brown. Drain excess grease. Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, Italian seasoning, parsley, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, worcestershire, and sugar to the skillet.

Offering authentic Italian cuisine passed down from the founders' family recipes, Carrabba's uses only the best ingredients to prepare fresh and made-from-scratch Italian favorites.

Carrabba's slogan, “Non c'e amore piu' sincero di quello del cibo” (there is no love more sincere than the love of food) might be better phrased: “There is no love more sincere than the love of great Italian food at reasonable prices.

Offering authentic Italian cuisine passed down from our founders' family recipes, Carrabba's uses only the best ingredients to prepare fresh and handmade dishes cooked to order in a lively exhibition kitchen.

That and sneaky doses of soybean oil in the pasta sauces make it extremely difficult to find an Italian restaurant the kids can eat at. They use Extra Virgin Olive Oil for most of their oil usage, so they can have the pasta.

While traditional pasta is made from wheat derivatives, gluten-free pasta uses other types of grains. In Italy, gluten-free pasta tends to be made from a combination of white rice flour and corn flour. There are also higher protein varieties on US supermarket shelves that are made from quinoa, lentils, or chickpeas.

INGREDIENTS: Rice Flour, White Maize Flour, Yellow Maize Flour, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids).

Ragù Toscano is a hearty Italian meat sauce from Tuscany, consisting of ground beef, bits of sausage, tomatoes, wine, olive oil, and a sofrito made from onion, carrots, and celery. There are numerous variations on the ragù depending on the region where it is prepared.

The exact location of Marinara Sauce's creation seems to be lost to time, but it was likely first developed in the southern region of Italy, in either Naples or Sicily, after tomatoes first appeared in Europe via explorers from the New World in the 16th century.

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When placing your order, please let your server know that you are ordering a gluten-free menu item. Grilling over an open fire has been a part of authentic Italian cooking for centuries. At Carrabba's, we use the high heat of a 550-degree wood-fired grill fueled by natural hardwood logs, such as oak or pecan.