Sunday, May 08, 2011

First attempt to cook pasta !!

Spaghetti with mince meat/zucchini/tomato sauce

Step1: wait till the water is boiling before placing the spaghetti gently into the wok. add salt.


Step2: make sure all the ingredients are ready
For this dish, mince meat (thawing out), Prego sauce and slices of zucchini



Step3: add some oil, fry a clove of garlic. when it browns up nicely, put the zucchini in first as it takes time for the pieces to soften.. add some water. once the zucchini is soft, put the mince meat in the middle and jus chop it up w the spatula


once the meat is cooked, add 4 table spoons of Prego sauce (or watever amount you want to eat)

add a dash of olive oil for taste



Step4: while the sauce is simmering, scoop up the spaghetti into a sieve and run it thru tap water so it won't stick. put it in the plate and toss with olive oil

Step5: pour sauce over spag and voila!

Step6: NOM NOM NOM !



Conclusion: pretty decent dish.. lol.. the sauce was salty enough so I didn't add in extra salt

Hmm.. spaghetti a bit too plumped up.. too long in boiling water. Gotta be careful about timing in future. Mince meat with zucchini serving just right for 1 person.

Well.. a healthy(ier) dinner for once. When parents are not home lol.. can't keep relying on downstairs zhi-char stall !

Attempt: Success!! :)

*the cleaning up sucks