Italian cuisine is spread all over the world. Almost every family in any country has its own homemade pizza recipe, its own secrets of making pasta, pasta and spaghetti. Fans of Italian cuisine are specially selected after work to taste the risotto or lasagna in the best restaurants. Mozzarella is added to salads no less than feta cheese. Ravioli can already be bought at almost every grocery supermarket. Let’s learn today how to cook spaghetti and how to cook delicious spaghetti with meatballs in tomato sauce.
A little about spaghetti
Spaghetti (Italian: Spaghetti) - a typical dish of Italian cuisine. This is a type of pasta with a diameter of 2 mm and a length of at least 15 cm. It is not clear exactly where these dough products were invented: in Mongolia, China or in the Arab countries. But they gained popularity precisely in Italy. In the city of Pontedassio (near Genoa) there is even a whole Spaghetti Museum where you will find about 200 types of pasta, as well as a thousand delicious spaghetti recipes with various seasonings and sauces.
Calorie and nutritional value of spaghetti
Losing weight probably know how harmful pasta is and how quickly they add extra centimeters at the waist. However, if spaghetti is consumed in reasonable amounts and rarely, then you can indulge yourself every 2 weeks without harm.
We study the calorie content and nutritional value of spaghetti per 100 grams of product:
- 344 kcal;
- 10.4 g of protein;
- 1.1 g of fat;
- 71.5 g of carbohydrates.
Agree, if your daily intake of carbohydrates should not exceed 150 g, then 100 grams of spaghetti with meatballs in sauce can significantly spoil your statistics. The main thing - know how not to go beyond the limits of your norm. You can eat some tasty food, but cut back on carbohydrates during the day.
Life hacks in cooking spaghetti
Not every housewife knows how to cook these pasta. For some, they stick to the pan, for others they turn out to be tough or, conversely, too soft. In general, there are a lot of problems when cooking spaghetti. Let's figure out what needs to be done to prepare this product perfectly:
- The ratio of water to product is very important. Spaghetti should be cooked in a large spacious pan, per 100 g of product - 1 liter of water. Do not forget that during the cooking process they increase in volume.
- Putting pasta should only be after the water has boiled. If you do not adhere to this advice, you risk getting a sticky, tasteless mass after cooking.
- It is necessary to salt not pasta, but water until it boils. The proportion is as follows: 10 g of salt should be taken per 1 liter of water.
- Cooking time also depends on the diameter of the pasta: the thicker they are, the longer they should be cooked. But there is still the average cooking time: in boiling water from seven to fifteen minutes. By the way, usually the right time is prescribed on the package. Do not ignore the labels in pursuit of the perfect dish.
- Don't want the pasta sticking together? Add a tablespoon of olive oil. Moreover, they will make your dish more fragrant.
- Do not cook pasta under the lid. Forget about it when cooking pasta.
- When pasta is already cooked, it is not worth washing them. Especially if you do it under hot water, as they continue to cook, this will increase the cooking time, and you risk getting pasta of the wrong condition.
- It’s best not to throw the pasta into a colander, but to take it out with a special kitchen appliance - pasta tongs.
- Eat pasta better than freshly prepared. They should not be warmed up or eat the next day.
Follow these recommendations, and then your lunch or dinner will certainly not be spoiled.
Spaghetti Recipes
Spaghetti is a unique product. There are a billion recipes with which you can please not only yourself, but also your friends and relatives. For example, the following:
- Carbonara pasta.
- Spaghetti with meat and vegetables.
- Pasta with an egg.
- Pasta with chicken and mushrooms.
- Navy-style pasta.
- Spaghetti bolognese".
- Pasta with seafood.
- Spaghetti with garlic sauce and cheese.
- Shrimp pasta.
- Spaghetti with meatballs in tomato sauce.
And today we are talking about the last paragraph. Let's look at some recipes for meatballs with spaghetti. Diversify your family’s diet. They will love it!
Spaghetti with beef meatballs in tomato sauce
Ingredients:
- 300 g of spaghetti;
- 500 g of ground beef;
- half onion;
- 100 g of cheese;
- egg;
- salt pepper.
Sauce Ingredients:
- 4 tomatoes;
- 3 tbsp tomato paste;
- onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 50 ml of white wine;
- Italian herbs
- olive oil;
- greens.
Preparing our culinary masterpiece:
- Pass the garlic through the garlic press. Peel and finely chop the onion. Fry all together in olive oil for about five minutes.
- Peel the tomatoes. Put in a blender and grind. Mix with wine, tomato paste and a mixture of onions and garlic. We put on a slow fire, cover and heat the sauce for about half an hour.
- Take the ground beef, add the egg and chopped onion. Three cheese there and sprinkle with spices. We form balls and fry in vegetable oil in a skillet until cooked.
- Boil the spaghetti and portionwise on plates. Pour the sauce, put meatballs and sprinkle them with cheese and herbs.
- The dish is ready.
You can call your household for dinner. Get ready to put the supplement on!
Spaghetti with turkey meatballs with sauce
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp olive oil;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 500 g of turkey minced meat;
- 450 g of spaghetti;
- egg;
- 1/3 cup of milk;
- bulb onions;
- 2/3 cup breadcrumbs (breadcrumbs);
- half a glass of parmesan cheese;
- 5 medium tomatoes;
- thyme, oregano;
- any greens;
- salt pepper.
Cooking method:
- Press garlic through a press and fry it without oil in a non-stick pan for a minute. Sprinkle oregano with thyme. Add tomatoes without skin there. Now you need to pepper and salt everything. Bring the mass to a boil, make the fire quieter. Cook the sauce for about twenty-five minutes, cover.
- In a bowl, beat the milk with the egg. Add salt and pepper.
- Now add grated cheese, herbs, onions and crackers to the bowl. Mix all this with minced meat.
- Form meatballs with wet hands. Put them in a saucepan. Cook them for about ten minutes over medium heat.
- Learn on the packaging how to cook spaghetti and, following the instructions, boil the side dish.
- Put the pasta in a pan with sauce and meatballs. Mix and cook for a couple of minutes.
- Serve portionwise on plates. Sprinkle with cheese.
A great option for a hearty dinner. True, you are unlikely to have a dish for tomorrow, because it is incredibly tasty!
Spaghetti meatballs in cream cheese sauce
Balls of meat need not be made in tomato sauce. Let's look at another interesting recipe for meatballs with spaghetti, only already in creamy cheese sauce:
Ingredients for meatballs:
- 250 g of minced chicken;
- 250 g minced pork;
- large onion;
- 2 slices of white bread;
- half a glass of milk;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- oregano and dried basil;
- salt pepper.
Sauce Ingredients:
- one large carrot;
- onion;
- cream cheese cream packaging;
- cream package (10%);
- 200 g of champignons;
- half a glass of red dry wine;
- olive oil;
- olive oil;
- a pinch of nutmeg;
- green basil;
- any greens.
We prepare as follows:
- Finely chop the peeled onion and fry it in a pan.
- Combine the two types of minced meat, adding spices, two eggs and onions.
- Soak the bread in milk. Add to the stuffing.
- We form small balls.
- We prepare the sauce this way: fry the grated carrots with onions in a pan. Here we add wine, mushrooms, cream cheese. Mix it all and simmer for about seven minutes. Add chopped herbs and all the spices.
- Put the meatballs in the sauce and simmer for about twenty minutes.
- Boil spaghetti as written on the package. Then combine the spaghetti with meatballs and sauce.
- We put spaghetti on a plate, pour sauce and put meatballs on top. Garnish with herbs and sprinkle with cheese.
Conclusion
We hope the article was helpful. Treat yourself and the whole family with exquisite Italian recipes. Bon Appetit!