This is the way my husband likes his Spaghetti: sauce on top of the pasta and sprinkled with grated parmesan cheese
This is how I like my spaghetti: mix the sauce up with the pasta, let it set in the fridge overnight and heat it up in the microwave the next day. This way the pasta soaks up all the flavor in the sauce
An Italian lady once told me that the secret of good spaghetti is in the sauce, and the secret of a good sauce is slow and long simmering.
This recipe is easy and simple but if you want it to be delicious and savory, it takes patience, as it takes more than one hour to simmer the sauce on top of stove or you can use a crock pot and let it cook for 5 hours.
Here's what you need for the sauce:
1 lb. ground beef (85/15)
1 lb. ground pork
1 can spaghetti sauce
1 can (14.5 oz.) tomato sauce
1 cup water
1 medium onion, chopped
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 can (14.5oz.) whole peeled tomatoes, chopped
2 Tbsps canola oil
1/2 lb. Italian sausage, sliced
1 Tbsp. Italian seasoning
2 tsp salt
2 heaping tbsps. brown sugar
Procedure:
1. Heat a large skillet and brown the meat until they are no longer pink
2. Transfer the meat to a colander and drain off the fat
3. Take out the excess grease from the skillet and heat the cooking oil
4. Saute the garlic and the onion until onions are wilted and transluscent. Add the tomatoes and continue to saute for about 3 minutes
5. Add the browned meat and the sausage and saute for another 5 minutes
6. Stir in the tomato sauce and water; then add the seasonings and salt
7. Cover and let it simmer on low heat for 1 1/2 -2 hours stirring ocassionally.
8. Mix in the brown sugar 5 minutes before you take the sauce off the stove
9. Serve over hot spaghetti pasta
Notes:
1. The sauce will be enough for 18 oz cooked spaghetti
2. In the Philippines, we use banana ketchup (mafran/jufran) instead of tomato sauce; and sliced hotdogs instead of sausage, and always ground pork; and add the cooked pasta right into the cooked sauce and mix them together until all the pasta is coated with the sauce. The banana ketchup gives a little kick to the sauce because they are flavored with hot peppers.
Hi MaMely
ReplyDeleteDid you add flour in your meatballs recipes? i can see a white powder on the picture.
Hello Anonymous, thanx for dropping by. The white stuffs on the spaghetti sauce is grated parmesan cheese in canister.
ReplyDeleteHello Anonymous, did you mean the powder looking stuff on the meatball mixture? thats the quaker oats I crushed or powderized in the food processor.
ReplyDeleteHi MaMely
ReplyDeleteGreetings from NZ!
Thanks for taking the time to answer my query. Can i also use flour instead of quaker oats?
Anonymous, so sorry I neglected the comment box on this post.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's a good idea to sub flour for the oatmeal in meatballs. However, you can roll the meatballs in flour before baking or frying them though.