Darren 
I rarely order pasta in restaurants
Because you subconsciously say that this is a perfunctory taste
Why say perfunctory?
When it comes to pasta, the most popular or classic one that everyone has ever tasted is tomato sauce pasta, but you may not know that the recipe for tomato sauce pasta is very time-consuming. It is a meat sauce made by boiling minced meat with ingredients, rather than a dish that can be completed by stir frying minced meat with diced tomatoes.
Today, Matsunaga is sharing a touching classic Italian tomato sauce pasta dish
How to make a delicious Italian tomato sauce noodle dish?
It's actually quite simple, "good ingredients and good patience.".
It's easy for this pasta to taste good, you need to have good patience.
Firstly, you need to choose the appropriate pasta to match.
I have seen a lot of pasta, whether it's meat sauce, light sauce, seafood, etc., all paired with slender noodles, such as round and straight spaghetti, angel hair noodles, etc
In fact, in the pasta family, every type of noodle has its suitable partner.
Sharp straight pipe surface · Penne
If you are making meat sauce or white sauce seafood and need pasta that can greatly absorb rich sauces, you can choose spiral noodles/Fuselli, tube noodles/Rrigatoni, pointed straight tube noodles/Penne
I am using Penne Rigate, and upon closer inspection, you will notice that its surface grooves and hollow tubes can absorb a large amount of sauce, allowing you to feel the full flavor in one bite. So, you should avoid using fine noodles!
Noodle selection OK, start making sauce bolognese (Italian tomato sauce noodles)
This pasta dish does not require advanced culinary knowledge or advanced Michelin chef skills, but what is needed is your patience in making delicious food.
Beef mince, diced tomato, diced onion, diced celery, I
Basil leaves, tomato sauce, black pepper, olive oil
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? Time ? 4 hours
Difficulty
Taste
The pasta with strong flavored sauce - the fresh sweetness of various vegetables is melted in the sauce, and the sourness and sweetness of tomatoes are absorbed by the beef cooked until soft and rotten. Paired with pasta cooked to the perfect taste, it's perfect!
Step · Tomato Meat Sauce
Step 1 Chop 250g of beef into small pieces and dice various vegetables.
Step 2 Heat olive oil, add more and stir fry the ground beef until fragrant.
Step 3 After stir frying the beef until fragrant, stir fry the next diced onion until transparent, then add half a diced carrot and one diced celery to stir fry until fragrant.
Step 4 Add 200g of tomato sauce and four diced tomatoes in sequence, stir fry for 3 minutes, then pour in beef broth, add a few slices of basil, and simmer over low heat for 2 hours until thick.You read it correctly for 2 hours, during which continuous stirring is required. This is a patient process that blends the flavors like making Cantonese style soup.
Do you want to add red wine? It is not necessary.
The tomato sauce here is peeled tomato whole sauce.
-Boiled pasta-
"The noodles are too hard and too light" is a common evaluation of pasta by many people. So how should pasta be cooked to taste good?
In the book "Anthropologist in the Kitchen" that I recently read, there is an Italian chef's secret to cooking noodles: "Salty like the sea, hot like hell.".
The meaning of the chef is that when cooking pasta, salt must be sprinkled to make the water as salty as the sea. Otherwise, the pasta will be bland and tasteless;
2. The water for cooking noodles should be sufficient and keep boiling continuously.Regarding time, 8-14 minutes. The packaging you purchased is also indicated.Good cooking of noodles is also the key to a plate of pasta, otherwise the unpleasant taste will make people lose the desire to continue tasting.When the meat sauce is almost ready, boil the pasta over high heat.
At this point, it is important to be very careful. As mentioned earlier, this is not mixing noodles, but rather blending the flavor of meat sauce with the noodles through stir frying.
When the pasta is about to be cooked, pour a small cup of noodle soup into the meat sauce, turn on high heat and quickly drain the sauce. At this time, remove the pasta (be careful not to use cold water) and stir fry with the meat sauce for 3 minutes before serving on a plate. (Can be seasoned with some black pepper)
Sauce bolognese/Italian tomato sauce noodles done!
This fusion allows the pasta to absorb the flavor of the meat sauce, which entangles the pasta body and prevents excess water from escaping.
After being cooked like Cantonese style soup, all the sauce is adsorbed on Penne
After taking a bite, the sour taste of the fragrant tomato surrounds the beef
The mouth is filled with delightful meat sauce
This is tomato sauce pasta!
After a long afternoon of tinkering, we finally finished our dinner.
