Want to pamper your kids and husband with an exquisite Italian dish? Then prepare pasta for them for dinner or lunch. We offer you two interesting and uncomplicated recipes.
Bolognese pasta
Food set (based on 2 servings):
- 100 g of beef liver;
- one onion;
- 200 g of any pasta;
- clove of garlic;
- 150 g of ham;
- half a carrot;
- 2 tsp vegetable oil;
- 5 tbsp. l red wine;
- 2 glasses of meat broth;
- 1 tsp wheat flour;
- 1 tbsp. l tomato paste;
- spice.
How to cook Bolognese pasta :
1. Rinse and peel vegetables. Dice onion, carrot and garlic. Grind the liver and ham - you can also cubes. We spread the liver in a pan and fry a little in oil. Then add chopped garlic, onion and tomato paste. Add a little oil. Fry for 5 minutes. We send carrots and ham to the pan. Pour in the broth previously prepared and brought to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes. Add sliced liver.
2. In a separate frying pan, flour must be passaged, cooled, and then diluted with a small amount of broth (chilled). Pour the wine here. The resulting mixture is carefully added to the pan with stew. Cook for 7 minutes.
3. It remains to cook pasta. This process usually takes 10 minutes. We distribute the macaroni on two plates. Put the stew on top. Decorate with chopped herbs. So, pasta in Bologna ready to eat. Enjoy your meal!
Bolognese spaghetti with mushrooms
Ingredients (based on 4 servings):
- 300 ml of vegetable broth;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- 350 g champignon;
- a bunch of parsley;
- one medium onion;
- 2 tsp basil (dried);
- 400 g canned tomatoes;
- spaghetti;
- 2 tbsp. l tomato paste;
- 4 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
Spaghetti in Bologna are prepared like this:
1. Peel the onion and garlic. Grind them and send them to the pan. Lightly fry using oil. Add 2/3 of the mushrooms. Mix the ingredients thoroughly. Greens should be chopped and sent to the pan. Fry vegetables for 10 minutes.
2. To make the dish bright and aromatic, you need to add tomato paste and basil to it. Cook the stew for another 2 minutes. Sprinkle with chopped herbs at the very end.
3. In a small pan, boil the spaghetti, then distribute on plates. Put the stew on top.
Pasta Tips
Every housewife wants all her dishes to be tasty and delicious. But with pasta, there are sometimes misses. They boil, stick together, turning the dish into porridge. To avoid such troubles, certain rules must be followed. Here are some of them:
- For every 100 g of pasta we take 100 ml of water and 10 salt. 225 g of product is enough for two servings.
- Throw pasta into pre-salted and boiled water. The main thing is not to digest them. Otherwise, you get porridge.
- Immediately spread the whole volume of pasta into the pan. We interfere only once - at the very beginning of cooking.
- After you dip the spaghetti in boiling water, you need to put a little pressure on them, pushing into the water. In a few minutes of cooking, the lower part of the product will go limp, which means that it will easily go to the bottom of the pan.
- To lay out spaghetti on plates is best with special tongs. Raise them high above the dish to separate the portion from the bulk. Using a fork, you can make "nests" of spaghetti.
- If cooking pasta is an intermediate step, then their cooking time should be reduced by 2 times.
- To prevent spaghetti from drying out, a little liquid should be left in them.
Afterword
Now you know how to cook spaghetti and pasta in Bologna. If you follow all the rules described in the article, you will get a tasty and fragrant dish, no worse than in an Italian restaurant. We wish you success in culinary affairs!