Spaghetti

If there is a non-Filipono dish that I couldn't live without, it would be spaghetti. I just love spaghetti, I could eat it everyday. I have created a recipe to make make spaghetti more Pinoy style, which is a sweeter than the usual marinara sauce that Italians and Caucasians make. I use to put hotdogs, which is one of the main ingredients in Pinoy style spaghetti, but since Sophie and I are not crazy about hotdogs, I took it out of my recipe.

I have been cooking spaghetti for decades. My friends especially would expect it when I invite them for my birthday parties back home. And now that I have Sophie, spaghetti is always part of the menu whenever she has birthday parties.

Pasta is a part of my weekly menu. I prefer spaghetti and mostaccioli. I would cook pasta once or twice a week. Sophie's preference varies in time. Before she loves spaghetti marinara, then she got tired of it and just wants spaghetti noodles with olive oil and mozarella cheese. Then she moved on to shrimp pasta in olive oil and parsley. A few months ago, she tried fettuccine alfredo. And have been eating it twice a week, with toasted garlic bread. Now she is back to loving spaghetti in marinara sauce. Who knows what she would request next.

Below is my own version of spaghetti in marinara sauce. It only takes 30-40 minutes to make.

Ingredients

1     lb           spaghetti noodles
1     lb           ground turkey or chicken (you could use ground                                beef)
1     jar         Everyday Essential garden spaghetti sauce
2     pcs         medium carrots, chopped
1     pc           medium onion, chopped
3     cloves    garlic, minced
1/4  cup        white sugar
1     tsp          salt
1     tsp          pepper
1/2 cup          water
3     tsp          vegetable oil

Procedure

In a pot, boil water and cook spaghetti noodles for 7-8 minutes, or until it becomes 'al dente'. Set aside.

In a saucepan, heat oil. Sauté garlic and onion. Add ground turkey. Cook for 15 minutes. Add carrots, cook for another 10 minutes.

Add the spaghetti sauce, sugar, salt and pepper. Pour water on spaghetti sauce jar and mix with remaining sauce inside. Add to the saucepan. Simmer for another 5 minutes. Pour over cooked spaghetti noodles.

Optional- sprinkle cheddar  or mozarella cheese on top.

Buon appetito!!