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| Pinoy Sweet-Style Spaghetti, a Pinoy food recipe |
I love Spaghetti! It’s my favorite dish
next to fried chicken. My mom cooks spaghetti the sweet style. Filipino-style
that is, sweet sauce with ground meat and tons of sliced hotdogs! When I was a
kid, she (in her early 70s now) has never heard of oregano, basil, mozzarella
and parmesan that make any pasta dish more aromatic and flavorful.
So when I was growing up, I would only
be familiar with the kind of spaghetti she prepares, until I got to taste
various pasta dishes served in restaurants and those I’ve seen in numerous
international cooking shows. This Pinoy food recipe is a combination of what my
mom used to cook with some tweaks I have made since cooking this spaghetti dish
several years back.
Since January 4 celebrates National
Spaghetti Day, allow me to share with you what brings warm childhood memories
and a definite comfort food for me and any Pinoy who grew up accustomed to an
easy Pinoy food recipe – Pinoy
Sweet-Style Spaghetti.
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| Pinoy Sweet-Style Spaghetti ingredients |
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| Pinoy Sweet-Style spices |
Ingredients
1 kg. Spaghetti noodles
1 kg. Sweet-style Spaghetti sauce
½ kg. Lean ground pork
1 Cup Hotdog (sliced, about 250grams)
1 Big White Onions (minced)
1 Whole Garlic (minced)
1 Big Bell Pepper (diced)
1 Cup Parmesan Cheese
Chili Powder (optional)
Salt & Pepper (to taste)
1/2 cup water
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| Sweet-Style Spaghetti Sauce and Parmesan Cheese |
Procedure
1)
Cook Spaghetti noodles according to package
directions. (see cooking tips)
2)
In a bowl, combine sweet-style spaghetti sauce
and ½ cup grated parmesan cheese.
3)
In a pan, sauté onions until translucent. Add
in garlic then add ground pork and season to taste. Drop 1/3 of the diced bell
pepper.
4)
After a few minutes, add hotdogs,
a pinch of chili powder and continue to sauté.
5)
Once you see excess oil,
take some out and add in the sweet-style spaghetti sauce with grated parmesan,
water and 1/3
of diced bell pepper. Bring to a boil,
stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper, according to taste and add
more chili powder for that extra kick (optional).
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| Thick Pinoy Sweet-Style Spaghetti Sauce |
6)
Once sauce starts to
thicken, add the remaining bell pepper and simmer until you see your desired
consistency.
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| Pinoy Sweet-Style Spaghetti, a Pinoy Food Recipe |
Cooking Tips
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| Store-bought spaghetti |
When cooking store-bought pasta, if
the instruction calls for 8 to 10 minutes of boiling, I would boil pasta for 6
minutes. Turn off heat and retain pasta in the boiled water for a few more
minutes. This prevents cooked pasta from being soggy. You want that al dente
pasta, always!
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| Lean Ground Pork and Bell Pepper |
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| Canned Tomatoes |
If you cannot find a sweet-style
spaghetti sauce, use canned tomatoes then add brown or muscovado sugar to
sweeten the sauce. Add parmesan cheese and set aside for 30 minutes.
I cannot emphasize how much I love pasta dishes and this Pinoy Sweet-Style Spaghetti is definitely a part of my Monday Madness feature here at Eat To Your Heart’s Content!
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Pie
Rivera is a former food columnist of Republic of 7107 Island Travel Magazine
and a freelance food & travel writer for local magazines and online travel
communities. She is a TV producer and creative director by day and wanderlust at heart.
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