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Pasta with minced meat and tomato paste in a frying pan

Skillet navy-style pasta with ground meat and tomato paste

A simple, quick, tasty everyday dish! Pasta with ground meat and tomato paste wins everyone over on the first bite. It takes no special skill, so even a beginner cook can manage it. Any pasta works, and you can swap the paste for fresh tomatoes.

Julia M.

Recipe author

Pasta with minced meat and tomato paste in a frying pan

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pasta

300

Ground meat

400

Onion

Tomato paste

Water (for boiling the pasta)

1.5

Vegetable oil

Salt

Dry spices

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 19 % 4 g

Fats 33 % 7 g

Carbohydrates 48 % 10 g

113 kcal

GI: 10 / 90 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:

How do you make skillet pasta with ground meat and tomato paste? Gather your ingredients. The ground meat can be any kind — chicken, beef, pork, turkey. I'm using ground pork. The pasta can be anything too — elbows, penne, or spaghetti. Choose what you like.
Step 2:

Drop the pasta into boiling water and salt it lightly. Cook according to the package directions — usually 7-10 minutes. The pasta should be soft but not mushy. Drain it in a colander and let all the water run off.
Step 3:

Peel, rinse, and finely chop the onion. Fry it in a little vegetable oil for 1-2 minutes, until translucent.
Step 4:

Then add the ground meat to the onion in the skillet. Stir-fry it for 3-5 minutes, until it changes color. Add the tomato paste and season with salt and spices to taste.
Step 5:

Fry everything together for another 5 minutes. If the meat is dry, add a couple of tablespoons of water so it doesn't scorch.
Step 6:

Add the cooked pasta to the meat and mix everything together.
Step 7:

Heat the pasta and meat together for 2-3 minutes and take it off the heat. The navy-style pasta is ready! Plate it up and serve.
Step 8:

Round it out with some fresh vegetables. Enjoy!

For how to cook pasta properly, how to cook it al dente, how to choose a quality product to avoid disappointment, and much more, see the article "Pasta — the fine points of choosing and the secrets of cooking it."
There's a simple way to check whether the oil is hot enough in the skillet: dip a wooden spatula into it. If bubbles gather around it, you can start frying.
To keep your eyes from stinging while you cut onions, rinse the onion and the knife with cold water. The cutting board won't pick up the onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before cutting.