Thursday, February 17, 2011

Do you like .. spaghetti al sugo :-) ?

spaghetti al sugo (with tomato sauce)
This is a classical spaghetti with easy to prepare tomatoes sauce.
Is quite fast to do , it need something more than half hour if you put to boil the water for pasta  during the sauce preparation.
I used the vegetables I had in the fridge, you can put what you have instead of carrots and cucumbers ;-) . Sometimes I make it with squash , potatoes , beens, egg plants or what else I have.
Usually I save half of tomatoes sauce in the fridge , it will be good for pasta for one week. So I can prepare again spaghetti or other pasta at evening very fast.

Part 1 .. the tomato sauce:
This is a very easy to prepare tomato sauce
Ingredients:
1 can of tomatoes pulp
1 carrot
half cucumber
half onion
1 garlic clove
salt
olive oil
a pinch of chily pepper
sugar

Cut and mince the half onion and the garlic clove.
Put olive oil in a little pot and add the minced onion with garlic.
Cook it for 5 min with middle fire (till the onions became golden).


Cut the carrot and the half cucumber in little pieces and add it in the pot, let it run with low fire for a couple of minutes. Add the pinch of chily pepper.

Add the tomatoes pulp and about two tablespoon of water (usually I use this water to clean the can of tomatoes pulp to take all the pulp!!).
Add a teaspoon of salt and less than half teaspoon of sugar and cook it for about half hour with low fire.

Now as your wish you can let the pieces of vegetables or mince it with handy mincer, I often mince it all to get a creamy sauce!!
PS: Taste it and add some salt or some water if is too salty ;-)

Part 2 , spaghetti.
Ingredients :
spaghetti (about 100 gr for person)
salt
olive oil
grated parmesan

(mm , is really necessary explain how to do ? :-) ) You' ll need your pasta pot , put water, let it boil , add half fist of salt (and a table spoon of oil) to the water , add spaghetti and let it cook for 11 minutes.
Then serve it with the sauce and add some fresh grated Parmesan cheese!!

2 comments:

  1. Yummy!!!!!! Kids normally do not like vegetable , and this is a great idea to "fool" them..I never thought of this..and I think it´s a brillant idea! Thanks for sharing!

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  2. I didn't thought to kids, but yes it can be a good trick ! ;-)

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