Pasta with minced meat and tomato paste

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make pasta with minced meat and tomato paste? First, prepare the necessary ingredients. I use spaghetti in the recipe, but you can replace them with another long pasta, for example, tagliatelle, fettuccini, bucatini, linguini. You can use ground beef, like mine, or mixed.

2. Step 2:

   

   Grate the cheese on a fine or medium grater. You can use any cheese - if you want a dish closer to Italian cuisine, take Parmesan. But the usual hard cheese of the Russian type is also suitable.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the garlic and finely chop it with a knife.

4. Step 4:

   

   Boil a large amount of salted water on the stove at the rate of: about 1 liter of water and 1 tablespoon of salt per 100 g of pasta without a slide. However, I advise you to put a little less salt, because we will still have salted minced meat. Put the spaghetti in the water and boil until al dente for about 7-8 minutes.

5. Step 5:

   

   While the pasta is cooking, prepare the tomato and meat sauce. Heat the butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Put the minced meat and fry for about 5 minutes, breaking up the lumps, until the whole minced meat turns dark.

7. Step 6:

   

   Depending on the quality of the minced meat and the amount of fat, more or less moisture will be released from it. You can wait until most of the liquid evaporates, but I advise you not to evaporate it too much - this way the sauce will turn out juicier. Pour the chopped garlic into the pan and fry all together, stirring, for 2 minutes.

8. Step 7:

   

   Lay out the tomato paste and mix. Simmer all together for 2-3 minutes.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add tomatoes in their own juice to the minced meat. Season everything with salt, pepper and mix. Warm everything up together for another 2-3 minutes. If you don't have tomatoes in your own juice, you can make them yourself: take 2 medium tomatoes and peel them. Grate one tomato on a fine grater to make a puree, and cut the second into small pieces. And stir. If desired, you can add a little ketchup to the tomato mass.

10. Step 9:

    

    While the minced meat is ready, flip the finished spaghetti into a colander and let the water drain.

11. Step 10:

    

    Next, you can simply transfer the pasta to the minced meat in the pan and mix. But I suggest a more refined serving: spread the pasta on plates, spread the tomato-meat mixture on top, sprinkle cheese on top and garnish with a sprig of basil. Bon appetit!