Ingredients:
400 grams of spaghetti noodles
500 grams of spaghetti sauce, Filipino style or Sweet style
1 cup ground beef
1 cup cheese hotdog, sliced
1 cup button mushroom, sliced
1 cup beef stock
1 cup water from the cooked spaghetti pasta
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 large onion, chopped
1 garlic bulb, finely chopped
1 medium carrot, finely chopped
2 tbsp. dried parsley
2 tbsp. paprika
Pepper to taste
Procedure for Spaghetti Sauce:
1. Saute garlic and onion until onion is translucent.
2. Add in the ground beef and continue stirring until the meat turns brown.
3. Add in the carrot and mushroom and cook until the vegetables are slightly brown.
4. Add in the parsley and paprika and continue stirring for 1 minute.
5. Pour in the beef stock and water and simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
6. Pour in the spaghetti sauce and add in the hotdogs and simmer for another 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
7. When the spaghetti sauce comes to a gentle simmer, add in the grated cheese and continue cooking.
8. Season with pepper. If the taste is a little bit bland, you can add salt. Spaghetti Sauce is ready when the consistency is a bit thick but not too thick and the cheddar cheese is completely melted.
9. Place cooked pasta in a serving dish and pour spaghetti sauce. Garnish with cheddar cheese and parsley. Makes 9 servings.
Procedure for Spaghetti noodles:
1. Boil enough water and add in a handful of salt. NO OIL! why? because the spaghetti sauce will not coat the pasta and will just slip through.
2. Cook spaghetti noodles according to package. wait.. not really.😁 It depends, to be honest on what kind of ingredients used and of course your preference on how firm and soft the pasta can be. If durum semolina is the main ingredient for the pasta it's al dente for 7 minutes but I cook it for 8-10 minutes. But if you use pasta made from wheat flour it can be al dente when cooked for 12 minutes.
Note: It's best to cook spaghetti sauce in a non-stick casserole.
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Filipinos love their spaghetti, sweet style and if with hotdog, tons of hotdog. 😂 A well-known brand here in the Philippines and now a global empire started this recipe and sold internationally and loved not only by Filipinos but foreign people as well.
Spaghetti is always served during birthdays, christening, fiesta and almost all event gatherings you can attend. No birthday is complete without spaghetti since kids love it so much. My early memory of spaghetti was when I was in grade 2 during our Christmas party and I can only have Jollibee spaghetti once a year until high school that is when we buy our school supplies in San Fernando La Union which can take 45 minutes to an hour ride from my hometown. So much waiting for a spaghetti right.😁
I have other spaghetti sauce recipes but this one is THE BEST sauce I've ever made because my family loves it so much and I make sure that I don't compromise the taste.
Choosing pasta for spaghetti shouldn't be taken lightly because if you want to make the best tasting spaghetti choose pasta wisely. In cooking pasta, there are brands that tend to expand in a drastic way and some tend to be soggy and mushy despite following package instruction while some brands when cooked retains its shape and size and don't expand so much. So, in my opinion and base on my experience, I go with pasta made from durum semolina because it doesn't expand so much and they don't stick together when left for an hour. I cook my spaghetti pasta last because I tend to cook a portion of the sauce with the pasta to coat every strand so that the pasta can absorb most of the flavor of the sauce.
The spaghetti sauce has lots of ingredients on it that is why it is a NO TIPID Spaghetti recipe. I normally use cheese hotdog rather than the regular ones and instead of oregano for the herb I used parsley because kids are not used to the aromatic scent of oregano. If I'm eating spaghetti with kids this is my recipe but if I eat spaghetti alone, I normally use loads of herbs in it like oregano, basil parsley and instead of spaghetti sauce, I use stewed tomato and I replace meat with shrimp.
How about you, how do you like your spaghetti?
