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Spaghetti Sauce

Features:
  • Veg
Cuisine:
  • 1 hr 20 mins
  • Serves 6
  • Medium

Ingredients

How to Make Spaghetti Sauce

  1. In a large, deep pot heat olive oil on a medium-high flame and add garlic. Sauté until fragrant.
  2. Add onions and fry for 1-2 minutes until or until they are translucent.
  3. Add ground beef, salt, pepper, oregano, basil, bay leaves and Italian seasoning to the pan. Fry until the beef is browned and cooked through.
  4. Add tomato sauce, paste and diced tomatoes to the beef and stir well.
  5. Reduce the flame to a medium-low, cover the pan with a lid and let the sauce cook for around 1 ½ hours. The consistency of the sauce should not be thin.
  6. Mix in parmesan cheese and mushrooms, pour over spaghetti or any other pasta and serve hot.

Trivia

  • The first recorded entry of a tomato sauce in Italy comes from Antonio Latini’s cookbook Lo scalco alla moderna.
  • Although it is regarded as the quintessential Italian dish, spaghetti with tomato sauce wasn’t a part of the Italian diet until the 1800s.
  • Spaghetti s the plural of spaghetto which is derived from the word spago which means “thin string” or “twine”.

Did you know that the first known record of pasta dates back to the 5th century AD, and is mentioned in the Talmud, which is a Jewish religious law book.

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