Description
Comforting classic spaghetti with hearty meat sauce brings Italian home cooking straight to your dinner table. Rich tomato-based sauce simmered with ground beef creates a satisfying meal that connects generations of hungry families with simple, delicious ingredients.
Ingredients
Scale
Proteins:
- 250 grams (8.8 ounces) ground beef
- 1 beef consommé cube
Pasta and Base Ingredients:
- 180 grams (6.3 ounces) spaghetti
- 200 milliliters (6.8 fluid ounces) salted tomato juice
- 500 milliliters (16.9 fluid ounces) water
Vegetables and Seasonings:
- 100 grams (3.5 ounces) onion, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2.5 grams (0.09 ounces) salt
- 20 milliliters (0.68 fluid ounces) olive oil
- Black pepper, freshly ground, to taste
- Parsley, chopped, to taste
Toppings:
- Powdered cheese, to taste
- Tabasco sauce, to taste
Instructions
- Warm olive oil in a spacious skillet over medium flame, introducing minced garlic and diced onions until they become translucent and fragrant.
- Incorporate ground beef into the skillet, breaking it down and cooking thoroughly until the meat achieves a rich, golden-brown color.
- Pour in tomato juice, water, and crumble the beef consommé cube directly into the mixture, seasoning with salt to enhance the flavor profile.
- Allow the sauce to reach a vigorous boil, then reduce heat and let it simmer gently for 15-20 minutes, allowing the flavors to meld and intensify.
- Simultaneously, prepare spaghetti in a separate pot of salted boiling water, following package guidelines for optimal texture and doneness.
- Drain the cooked pasta thoroughly, then delicately fold the spaghetti into the simmering meat sauce, ensuring each strand is luxuriously coated.
- Transfer the sauced spaghetti to serving plates, creating an appetizing presentation.
- Garnish generously with powdered cheese, add a dash of Tabasco for heat, sprinkle fresh parsley, and finish with a crack of black pepper.
Notes
- Use high-quality ground beef with moderate fat content for richer, more flavorful sauce.
- Enhance sauce depth by adding a splash of red wine during simmering for complex taste profile.
- For gluten-free option, substitute regular spaghetti with zucchini noodles or gluten-free pasta alternatives.
- Reduce sodium by using low-sodium beef consommé cube and controlling additional salt amounts.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Lunch
- Method: Sautéing
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4
- Calories: 480
- Sugar: 6g
- Sodium: 600mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 12g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 50g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 25g
- Cholesterol: 70mg