Spaghetti Bolognese
A bowl of steaming hot pasta served with slowly cooked and simmered meat sauce made of minced beef, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
Ingredients
400g spaghetti500g mince beef or chicken
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp garlic paste
1 large onion (chopped)
1 small carrot (grated)
1/2 cup stock water (made of a soup cube)
2 fried sausages chopped
4 large tomaotes (boiled and blended)
2 tbsp tomato paste
2 tsp white sugar
2 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp soya sauce
2 dried bay leaves
2 tp oregano
Salt and pepper to taste
Parmesan cheese (optional)
handful of chopped parsley (optional)
Directions
- Heat olive oil in a large pan over medium high heat. Add onion and then add the garlic paste and grated carrot and cook until softened.
- Turn the heat to high and add the minced beef/chicken. Cook, breaking it up finely.
- Next add the stock water. Bring to simmer and cook for 3 minutes, scraping the bottom of the pan.
- Bring the heat to medium and add boiled and blended tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar, bay leaves, oregano, sausages and soya sauce and bring it to a simmer. Cook for 20 minutes closed and then open the lid and let it simmer for 10 minutes. (Add water if the sauce gets too thick for your taste) Stir occasionally.
- Once the meat sauce is thicken, add salt and pepper to taste. Serve over cooked spaghetti.
- Bring salted water in a large pan and bring it to boil. Add the spaghetti and cook per packet directions.Then Drain it.
- Divide the pasta between bowls and pour the hot meat sauce over the pasta. Garnish with Parmesan and chopped parsley. Serve hot!
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