Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

Name: Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
Prep time: 29 min
Cook time: 29 min
Total time: 29 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 99 grams 100gramsbacon; 1 small onion diced into 1/8 inch pieces; 0 teaspoons black pepper; 400 grams canned whole tomatoes; 118 milliliters dry white wine; 2 cloves garlic finely minced; 255 grams 255gramsground beef; 1 teaspoon oregano; 255 grams 255gramsdried spaghetti; 1 teaspoons alt

Spaghetti and Meat Sauce is a dairy free main course. This recipe covers 34% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 2 servings with 1099 calories, 47g of protein, and 48g of fat each. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 29 minutes. Head to the store and pick up alt, bacon, wine, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the pecan pieces you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Pecan Pie as a dessert.

Instructions

Put a large pot of salted water on the stove over high heat. If you taste the water after dissolving the salt it should taste pretty salty. This flavors the pasta. Whatever you do, do not add oil to the water. This is done to keep the noodles from sticking together while boiling, but it will also keep your pasta sauce form sticking to the noodles when you eat it.

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Pasta Sauce

Pasta

Water

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Stove

Pot

Add the bacon to a pan over medium high heat and fry until a good amount of fat has rendered out of the bacon.

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Bacon

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Frying Pan

Add the ground beef and brown it, breaking up the meat with a spatula until it's cooked.

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Ground Beef

Meat

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Spatula

Transfer the meat to a bowl, leaving as much of the fat as you can in the pan.Turn down the heat to medium low. You should have about a tablespoon of rendered fat in the pan, if you have significantly more or less, dump some out or add some olive oil.

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Olive Oil

Meat

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Bowl

Frying Pan

Add the onions, carrot and garlic, and sauté until the onions are soft and the mixture is about 1/3 of its original volume. Depending on how small you diced your onions, this should take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes. This is where your sauce gets a lot of its flavor, so don't skimp on time. Turn up the heat to high, then return the meat to the pan.

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Carrot

Garlic

Onion

Sauce

Meat

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Frying Pan

Add the white wine and boil until there's almost no liquid left, stirring to prevent burning. This not only burns off the alcohol, it concentrates the flavor of the wine.Turn down the heat to medium-low and add the canned tomatoes, ketchup, salt and pepper.

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Canned Tomatoes

Salt And Pepper

White Wine

Alcohol

Ketchup

Wine

Put the oregano in the palm of your hand, and then use your other hand to rub the oregano in a circular motion to crush it into a powder before adding it to the pan. Us a spatula to break up the tomatoes, being careful not squirt tomato juice on yourself. By now your water should be boiling.

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Tomato Juice

Tomato

Oregano

Water

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Spatula

Frying Pan

Add your pasta and stir during the first few minutes of cooking to keep it from sticking together. I usually boil pasta for 1 minute less than what the package directions say (i.e. 8 minutes instead of 9).Your meat sauce is done when your pasta is done. You can either plate the pasta and top with sauce, or personally I like to dump the pasta straight into the sauce and toss it together before serving.

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Pasta

Sauce

Meat