Healthy cooking with little time. Pasta Bolognese with vegetables, cheese and a rocket salad.
Yesterday Bianca was out working and I was in charge of dinner.
I wanted to make something she could eat when she got home around 9 pm but I didn't have much time myself to make something amazing.
This happens sometimes to all of us I imagine :)
In a pinch, I usually go for pasta bolognese with vegetables.
It's probably not the most sophisticated dish on the planet but it's healthy and fast to prepare.
I made it loads of time when I was single.
I think anyone can make this dish and it beats a microwave dinner :)
Let's cook.
Ingredients: Spaghetti, red onion, red pepper, mushrooms, grated cheese, rocket salad, pasta sauce in a bag (or jar) and ground beef (not in picture).
Start with browning the meat. Put a little bit of oil in the pan and stir the meat until it's almost cooked. It does not matter if there are some raw pieces (it will all cook in the sauce).
Cut the vegetables while the meat is cooking and add them to the pan.
Stir the vegetables with the meat and cook for around 5 minutes.
Add the sauce to the mixture. The sauce I used was very thick so I added some water.
Put the lid on the pan and let simmer while you cook the pasta.
For pasta I choose spaghetti because we had an open bag. If you give the pasta a twist with both hands it will feather out and it will be easier to put it in the pan.
The secret is to undercook the pasta and finish it in the sauce. Pasta gets soft because it absorbs water so if you finish it in the sauce it will absorb the sauce and taste much better. This will work for almost any pasta dish. I usually cook the pasta 2 minutes less than recommended on the package. The spaghetti I cooked for 5 minutes. You can see it still 'looks' a little bit hard.
Stir the spaghetti in the sauce and just let it sit there for 2-3 minutes. It will absorb the sauce and will get cooked perfectly.
End result: A very fast and healthy plate of pasta in under 20 minutes. I added some cheese on top and made a quick side salad with some rocket and olive oil. It was delicious! Bianca like it a lot too (3 hours later!).
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my favorite food is spaghetti and pasta's yummy!
thats soooo delicious exyle 😍
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It looks delicious!!! I'd have the pasta bolognese for lunch!!
Oh the mushrooms, they always turn a simple dish into a masterpiece! Here in the supermarkets in Brazil they are now selling a box to grow mushrooms, everything comes ready, you just need to water the box and the mushrooms start to grow. Unfortunately they still don't have one that grow champignons.
Que interessante! Não sabia disso. Quanto custa uma caixa dessa?
A ultima vez que comprei estava 30 reais. Acho bem barato, considerando que o preço dos cogumelos aqui esta na media dos 12 reais e ela produz quase 4 vezes mais que isso!
Whoa, that's cool. Wish we could get that here in the states, maybe we can? I'll have to look for that.
Que massa vou procurar aqui na Inglaterra.
lol
Nice. Looks delicious.
yh it is so delicious.. <3
I'm now salivating😍😍😍.
Looks like this meal i prepared last week
Wow! that looks incredible!
You are a true definition of a romantic man. If you were a Nigerian, lots of ladies would love you for this.
Nigerian ladies love men who are romantic and who can cook. I an pretty sure Bianca loves you for this as well.
To be honest I hate cooking. Even as a bachelor ,I don't cool for myself, I rather eat out but seeing you do this gives me so much hope and tells me that I can do it and because of this, i will be trying out this recipe today
Thanks for being my culinary motivation...lolzzz
You should try to learn to cook some simple dishes. It can be fun too, man! It's not a bad skill to have.
Every man should know how to cook. I do almost all of the cooking in our house, my wife is a good cook, but doesn't love to do it often, and I do. I also have four sons, all of them will learn to cook, at least well enough to please themselves, before they leave my house.
yes it is good that everyone can at least cook for theirselves while they are out of home.. <3 i also love cook by my self infact when my mom is at home...
A fine dish, my friend and looks very appetizing! Meat stuffing, which you fried so originally and after adding vegetables to it, it becomes saturated, and when sauce was added to it, it became simply delicious! This sauce and even with spaghetti can be eaten without stopping! Thank you Mark for a wonderful recipe!
Haha good job on this recipe, I really like how you explained it I’m gonna try it out as I need healthy foods like pasta in my life and I’m glad Bianca liked it. Thanks