Spaghetti with minced meat and tomato paste

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make homemade spaghetti with minced meat and tomato paste? Minced meat can be used both at home and purchased. Pork, beef, chicken or any at all. If you, like me, prefer homemade minced meat, then I recommend that you scroll the meat through a meat grinder twice for its greater softness. I have minced beef pulp. Cover the minced meat with plastic wrap and leave it to rest in the refrigerator for a while.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour cold filtered water into a saucepan and put it on medium heat. Do not add salt yet, so the water will boil faster.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat sunflower oil in a non-stick frying pan and add finely chopped onion. Fry it over medium heat until golden brown.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the spaghetti vertically in a pot with boiling water! with water and, as the spaghetti softens, use a spoon to help them completely get into the water. After that, salt the water to taste.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cook the spaghetti, stirring occasionally, for one minute less than indicated in the instructions on the package. I cooked my six minutes after boiling the water again. But everyone's spaghetti is different, so follow the instructions. While the spaghetti is cooking, let's do the stuffing.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the minced meat in a frying pan, and fry, stirring, for about a minute. The stuffing should change its color.

8. Step 7:

   

   After the excess moisture evaporates, add tomato paste and salt the dish to taste. You can also add your favorite spices suitable for meat.

9. Step 8:

   

   Simmer the minced meat over low heat, stirring occasionally, for about five minutes.

10. Step 9:

    

    Ideally, by this time, the spaghetti should already be ready. Flip them into a colander and let the excess water drain. Then transfer to the pan with the meat.

11. Step 10:

    

    Gently mix the dish with a cooking spatula so as not to damage the integrity of the spaghetti.

12. Step 11:

    

    Under the closed lid, warm the spaghetti for a couple of minutes. That's why we didn't cook the spaghetti in the pan a little. Otherwise, they would have already passed in the pan. Spaghetti with minced meat in tomato sauce is served hot. You can additionally serve them with additional tomato sauce or ketchup and decorate with fresh herbs.