What could be easier than boiling spaghetti. But without the sauce, it will be just pasta. After all, it is the sauce that makes spaghetti really tasty.
Spaghetti tomato sauce - the basic principles of preparation
Tomato is an indispensable product in cooking. It is used for making soups, sauces, dressings and other dishes. It is especially suitable for meat and spaghetti.
To prepare the sauce, use tomato paste, fresh or canned tomatoes.
Tomato sauce fully reveals the taste of spaghetti. It is he who makes the dish unique. There are many recipes for making tomato sauce.
In addition to tomatoes, vegetables, mushrooms, meat, seafood, minced meat and other ingredients are added to the sauce.
If the sauce is made from fresh tomatoes, they are first scalded with boiling water and thin skin is removed. The pulp of tomatoes is ground into a small cube, grated or mashed with a blender. The remaining vegetables are peeled and chopped. Vegetables, meat or minced meat are fried in heated oil, poured all with tomato paste and simmer for several minutes.
Ready spaghetti laid out on a plate in a slide and pour over tomato sauce.
Recipe 1. Classic Spaghetti Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
a pound of fresh tomatoes;
150 g sweet pepper;
broth - glass .;
onions - 100 g;
30 ml olive oil;
tomato paste - 50 g;
garlic - 12 g;
7 g of Italian spices.
Cooking method
1. Wash the tomatoes, put in a deep plate and pour boiling water. After a few seconds, drain the water and peel the thin peel from the tomatoes. Peel the onion and garlic. Remove the seeds from the pepper. Grind all vegetables except tomatoes in small pieces.
2. Put onion and sweet pepper in a pan with oil and fry over medium heat for seven minutes.
3. Put tomatoes and garlic in a blender bowl. Interrupt everything to a puree state. Transfer the tomato mixture to a pan with vegetables. Stir. After a couple of minutes, pour in the broth, stir and bring to a boil. Stew for a few minutes.
4. Season the sauce with salt, spices and pepper. Stew until it thickens. Put the sauce on top of boiled spaghetti, garnish with parsley and basil leaves.
Recipe 2. Bacon Spaghetti Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
onion - two heads;
250 g of hard cheese;
clove of garlic;
5 g of oregano;
30 g tomato paste;
five fresh tomatoes;
200 g of bacon;
spaghetti - 350 g
Cooking method
1. Put a frying pan with olive oil on a stove. Cut the peeled onions in half rings. Fry the golden brown.
2. Bacon cut into thin strips and put in a pan with onions. Cooking another five minutes. Peeled garlic clove finely chopped and sent after the bacon.
3. Add tomato paste to the pan, mix. Cut tomatoes into small pieces. We put fresh tomatoes in a pan. Season with red pepper and oregano. Bring the sauce to a boil, twist the fire and cook, stirring constantly, for another ten minutes.
4. Add tomato sauce to the boiled spaghetti and mix. Simmer for three minutes over low heat, add the grated cheese and serve.
Recipe 3. Spaghetti Tomato Sauce with Cream and Ham
Ingredients
two tomatoes;
ham - 300 g;
40 g butter;
fat cream - glass .;
5 g of dried herbs;
100 g parmesan cheese;
spaghetti - 450 g
Cooking method
1. Melt the butter in a pan.
2. The washed tomatoes are wiped with a napkin and chopped into small slices. Spread in oil, reduce heat and simmer until tomatoes let juice. Then we add fire and fry for about five minutes.
3. Grind Parmesan cheese on a medium or large grater. We put another pan on a slow fire, melt the butter and spread the cheese. Pour in the cream, season with pepper, dried herbs and salt. Cooking products, constantly stirring, for about three minutes.
4. Cut the ham into thin strips and fry until lightly browned in a separate pan.
5. Add the cream-cheese mixture, ham and mix well in a pan with tomatoes.
6. We put boiled spaghetti in a pan with tomato and cream sauce. Quickly stir.
Recipe 4. Eggplant Spaghetti Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
250 g eggplant;
5 g of spices;
onions - 100 g;
700 g of fresh tomatoes;
vegetable oil;
garlic - 15 g.
Cooking method
1. Peel the eggplant, cut it into cubes, salt and leave in a colander for 20 minutes to make the juice stand out. Then rinse them with salt and pat dry on a napkin.
2. Chop finely chopped onions and half minced garlic for two minutes. Remove the thin skin from fresh tomatoes by sprinkling them with boiling water. Cut the flesh into slices and put in a pan with fried onions. Stew on low heat, about ten minutes.
3. In a separate pan, fry the eggplant with the remaining garlic until soft. Then shift them into a pan with tomatoes and simmer all together for the same amount of time, constantly mixing. Season with salt and pepper.
Recipe 5. Tomato sauce for spaghetti with minced meat
Ingredients
olive oil - 40 l;
tomatoes in their own juice - 1.2 kg;
10 g of oregano and basil;
ground beef - 400 g;
25 g of sugar;
300 g of sweet pepper;
onions - two large heads;
garlic - 20 g.
Cooking method
1. Spread the minced meat in a deep frying pan and fry in hot oil, constantly stirring, for five minutes.
2. Peel the garlic and onion. Rinse the pepper and cut the stem with the seeds. Finely chop all the vegetables, add to the minced meat and cook for about seven minutes.
3. Fresh tomatoes are cut into slices and put in a blender bowl. We interrupt the tomatoes until smooth, add sugar, salt, pepper and season with spices. Pour the tomato mixture into a pan with minced meat. Mix, cover and cook over low heat for half an hour.
Recipe 6. Chicken Spaghetti Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
30 g of hard cheese;
30 ml of vegetable oil;
30 g tomato paste;
clove of garlic;
bulb;
a pinch of pepper mixture;
200 g chicken fillet;
half a glass of filtered water;
40 g spaghetti.
Cooking method
1. Chop the peeled onion in a small cube. Peel and chop the garlic as finely as possible. Fry onions and garlic, constantly stirring, a couple of minutes.
2. Wash the chicken fillet and cut into slices. Put in a pan with onions and fry on moderate heat for about three minutes.
3. Add tomato paste to the meat, salt and season with a mixture of peppers. Shuffle. Pour in half a glass of cold water and simmer the meat sauce over low heat for about ten minutes, covering it with a lid.
4. Submit the spaghetti boiled to the al dente state in the pan with the sauce. Stir and leave for a couple of minutes to spaghetti soak in the sauce. Sprinkle with grated cheese and chopped parsley.
Recipe 7. Tomato sauce for spaghetti with mushrooms
Ingredients
10 g of dried parsley;
500 g of fresh mushrooms;
120 g of onion;
mushroom seasoning;
100 g of tomato paste;
300 g juicy tomatoes.
Cooking method
1. Peeled onions are cut into thin half rings. Grind the mushrooms with thin plates.
2. Fry onion with mushrooms, seasoning with spices for mushrooms and salt.
3. My tomatoes, and on each we make a cruciform incision. We pour fresh tomatoes with boiling water and remove the thin skin. The pulp of tomatoes is cut into slices, placed in a blender bowl and interrupted until puree. Pour into a saucepan, add a spoonful of vegetable oil and simmer for about ten minutes until thickened.
4. Pour the tomato mixture into the pan and simmer for five minutes. Pour dried herbs and cook over low heat for about ten minutes. Put the finished sauce on boiled spaghetti and serve.
Recipe 8. Seafood Spaghetti Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
500 g of seafood cocktail;
a mixture of herbs;
two cloves of garlic;
130 ml of dry white wine;
onion head;
60 g of tomato paste;
two fresh tomatoes.
Cooking method
1. Defrost a sea cocktail and rinse it thoroughly.
2. Wash fresh tomatoes, wipe and scald with boiling water. Peel them from thin skin. Grind the pulp of a tomato into a homogeneous mixture with a blender.
3. Peel and finely chop the garlic and onion. Pour two tablespoons of olive oil into the stewpan, heat it and fry the onion with garlic in it until light brown and soft.
4. Pour the chopped tomatoes into the stewpan, season everything with a mixture of herbs and dried basil. Stir and pour the wine. Pepper, salt. As soon as the mixture boils, twist the fire, cover and simmer for ten minutes. Remove the sauce from the stove.
5. Put the seafood mixture in a separate pan for three minutes. Then drain the released liquid, and transfer the seafood cocktail to tomato sauce. Shuffle.
Spaghetti Tomato Sauce - Tips and Tricks
- If you want to make the sauce thick, add a little starch or flour to it.
- Take only sweet tomatoes for the sauce; even sugar cannot block the acid.
- Fresh tomatoes can be mashed using a grater or blender.
- To prepare the sauce, you can use tomato paste, juice, fresh or canned tomatoes.
