Naval pasta is a very tasty, satisfying, aromatic and mouth-watering dish, which is characterized by maximum ease of preparation. That is why our compatriots loved to eat it 50 years ago, and contemporaries also do not refuse such pasta, which is suitable for both daily diet and holidays.
Essential ingredients for our dish
Before we figure out how to cook pasta in a navy way, we need to deal with their ingredients. There are only four main components of the dish: minced meat, pasta, ordinary onions and vegetable oil. Stuffing can be either bought in a store or cooked by yourself by scrolling meat through a meat grinder or grinding it in a blender. Most often, pork or beef is used for such a dish, but with the same success you can use chicken, turkey, rabbit and any other meat that is preferred in your family. You can also take any pasta , but pasta like horns is best for this dish. And finally, vegetable oil can also be at least sunflower, at least olive, and it can also be replaced with butter or margarine, which will make the dish even more appetizing and high-calorie.
Additional components
In addition to the main ingredients of the dish, you can also add many other ingredients, which will allow you to change the taste and appearance of the dish each time, thereby changing your diet and not causing tearing away from bored food. So, any vegetables can be added to pasta - whether it is bell pepper, canned peas, tomato or carrot, which will need to be fried with onions. Another addition to this dish is an excellent supplement in the form of a chopped head of garlic, which will be responsible for the richness of the pasta flavor and unusual aroma. For juiciness of a dish, before serving it can be poured with gravy from tomato or sour cream sauce. And finally, you can decorate this dish with grated cheese, which goes well with pasta and gives them a festive look.
Original recipe
For the first time, a navy recipe for pasta was published in 1955 in the USSR cookbook, which was called "Cooking". It required to take 80 grams of pasta, 75 grams of meat, 15 grams of melted butter, 20 grams of onion, 30 grams of broth, and, finally, 10 grams of melted beef or pork fat.
According to the recipe, the meat should be passed through a meat grinder, fried in melted fat and set aside for the time being. Then it was necessary to passer the onion in ghee, add the broth to it and add the pounded minced meat to the container. Next, it was necessary to stew minced meat until cooked, while boiling pasta in salted water. At the end, the minced meat was combined with pasta, mixed and served to the table.
Classic recipe
Now there are tons of different pasta recipes in the navy style, but most people prefer time-tested classics. To cook pasta according to the classic recipe, you need 400 grams of pasta, 1 kg of meat at your discretion, 2 onions, 30 ml of vegetable oil, as well as salt and pepper to taste. The first step is to cook the meat until cooked and crank it through a meat grinder. Then you will need to finely chop the onion and fry it in a pan until golden brown, after which you can add minced meat, a little water and stew for 10-15 minutes over low heat. Meanwhile, pasta is cooked in a saucepan until cooked, which are then combined with minced meat, salted-pepper and served in portions.
Cooking pasta navy in a slow cooker
Now almost every family has a crock-pot, which greatly simplifies cooking. In this case, the ingredients remain the same, but the cooking process changes slightly. First of all, we finely chop the onion, so that for 5 minutes then fry it to a translucent state, setting the “Baking” mode on the multicooker. After that, add raw mincemeat to the onion in the bowl and fry it in the same mode for 10 minutes. Next, pasta is laid out in the slow cooker, the water is added, which completely covers them, salt and pepper are added to taste and the "Rice" mode is selected, in which the dish is cooked for 20 minutes. After the allotted time, the water will completely evaporate and the pasta in a naval manner in the slow cooker will be completely ready. So you can safely lay them out on plates and proceed to a meal.
Cooking a meal for the smallest
Unfortunately, no matter how we teach our children to eat absolutely everything, often at the table they begin to act up and do not want to eat the food set in front of them. But if you specially cook pasta in a navy style for children, then they will eat them quickly, and they will also ask for supplements. Actually, the process of making such pasta is absolutely identical to the classic recipe. The main thing in dishes for children is their decoration and the way they are served. For example, putting food on a plate, you can decorate it with a smiling ketchup emoticon on top, or put chopped cucumbers and tomatoes on top of pasta, laying out a bright flower from them. Yes, in fact, you can decorate a dish in different ways, focusing on the character and hobbies of the child, the main thing is to do it with love, and then the baby definitely eats everything that lies on the plate.
Cooking navy pasta with meat
It is worth noting that our amazing, tasty dish can be prepared not only with minced meat, but also with meat, thereby diversifying your diet. For these purposes, take a pound of meat, 400 grams of pasta, 2 tablespoons of tomato juice, vegetable oil, 1 large onion and the same salt and pepper to taste. First of all, pasta is boiled in salted water until it becomes half-prepared, that is, slightly dry inside. Next, we cut the meat into small slices and onions in half rings, then fry them in vegetable oil until the meat is covered with a crust and is completely ready. After that, tomato juice, pasta, salt and pepper are added to the meat, all this is mixed well and stewed over a slow fire for a minute.
Pasta with Tomato Sauce
If the usual recipe does not suit you, since the dish seems rather dry, you can try to cook pasta in a navy style with tomato paste, which will make the dish more tender and juicy. In fact, it is prepared according to the classic recipe, with the same ingredients and in the same order. However, just before the end of cooking, you will need to make some changes. Actually, there’s nothing complicated and there, just as soon as the pasta is combined with the minced meat, you need to pour them with tomato sauce, to obtain which the tomato paste is diluted with boiled water and a pinch of flour is added, and then mix. Also, tomato sauce can and simply pour pasta in a navy manner already in plates, so that the dish looks more aesthetically pleasing.
Economical version of the dish
But if money is not enough, then how to cook pasta in a naval way in this case? The answer is simple - use the economical option of cooking this dish, in which there is no meat or minced meat. In this case, you need to boil the pasta until cooked in salted water, while simultaneously frying. For frying, we grate carrots, cut onions in half rings and chop the bell peppers and peeled tomatoes into cubes. And as soon as the vegetables are chopped, they will need to be fried in vegetable oil and combined with ready-made pasta. After this, the dish is mixed, laid out on plates and served on the table.