spaghetti

SPAGHETTI IN FILIPINO STYLE

An Italian cuisine that is commonly serve in Filipino gatherings wether in a birthday party or just a simple lunch wich comes with fried chicken, a lightly toasted bread and an iced cola. However, this rich Italian recipe presented here is modified to capture the Filipino taste gained it's popularity afterwards that even or almost all fast-food chain in the Philippines includes this modified spaghetti to their menus even McDonals.

Ingredients:

500 grams ground beef

1 small onions

2 gloves of garlic

cooking oil

teaspoon of salt

1 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper

2-4 cups of water(depending on the thickness of your sauce that you prefer)

500 grams of Filipino-style spaghetti sauce or 300-350 grams of tomato paste

400 ml of tomato cutsup (sweetened or unsweetened)

3-4 tbsp of sugar (can be more...)

350 grams of cheddar cheese (grated)

500 grams spaghetti pasta

2 hard bioled eggs (optional)

6 pieces regular sized pork hotdogs (cut into diced/cubes)- optional

Procedure:

The Sauce:

1. In a large sauce pan, put in the ground beef add some water about 2 1/2 cup.Let it boil, stirring occationally and simmer until the beef produce iy's own oil while the water completely evaporates. Let the beef cooked on it's own oil until tender and golden brown. If the beef doesn't produce it's own oil, you can add cooking oil.

2. Once beef is tender and brown, add the onion, garlic, and hotdogs. Saute for a few minutes, turn heat to low.

3. Add the spaghetti sauce or tomato paste, stir, add water, salt, tomato catsup, sugar and stir. Cover,wait for it to boil while occationally stirring it.

4. While waiting for the sauce to boil, you can now start boiling the pasta by the many variants of pasta available in the market.Don't forget to add oil and salt when cooking the pasta.

5. While occationally stirring the sauce so it won't stick to pan, you can start slicing the hard boiled eggs into thin slices. Set aside for garnishing. (optional)

6. Once the sauce is boiling, turn heat to low. Stir and simmer for few minutes. Sprinke the ground black pepper according to your taste, add more catsup, salt or sugar if you want. Stir and turn off the heat.

7. Drain the pasta well in a large strainer while it turns in a faucet of cold water. Drain once more.

8. Set the pasta on a each platter. Pour in some sauce on the top. Garnish with grated chedar cheese and few slices of hard boiled eggs.

9. Serve with a bread toast and an iced cola or iced tea.