Pasta with minced meat in a slow cooker

Quickly, simply, in a hurry, from ordinary products! Pasta with minced meat in a slow cooker is a recipe that will help you out when you need to cook dinner without a stove. It is very convenient — both meat and pasta will be cooked at the same time, and as a result, the dish will turn out no worse than cooked in the usual way.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 18 % 7 g
Fats 43 % 17 g
Carbohydrates 40 % 16 g
250 kcal
GI: 13 / 88 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make pasta with minced meat in a slow cooker? Prepare the products. Take high-quality pasta from durum wheat, they are tastier, healthier and less boiled. I would also advise you to take those that cook for a long time — 10 minutes or longer. But thin spaghetti is better to cook in the usual way. Any minced meat will do, I have beef, homemade. Instead of tomatoes, you can take tomato paste or canned tomatoes.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel the tomatoes. To do this, wash them and make a cross-shaped incision on each.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Put the tomatoes in a bowl and pour boiling water so that they are immersed in water. Hold the tomatoes in it for 1 minute and transfer them to another bowl, already with cold water.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    The skin will easily and quickly come off from the temperature difference. You don't have to remove the skin from tomatoes, then skip these steps.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cut tomatoes into quarters, remove the hard part of the stalk. Cut the tomatoes in any way, I cut them into slices.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Select the mode suitable for frying on your slow cooker. I have it "Baking". Set the time to 15 minutes. Pour vegetable oil and press start. After a minute, when the oil warms up, put the onion in a bowl. Fry it, stirring, for a couple of minutes, until transparent.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Then put the minced meat. Break up large lumps with a spoon. Cover the lid and fry the minced meat until the end of the program, stir it a couple of times during this time.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    When the frying program is over, add tomatoes to the bowl. spread them evenly over the meat. Pour in the pasta.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Pour in the water, it should be freshly boiled or very hot, so that the appliance does not have to waste time heating it. The water should cover the pasta. I went a little overboard with the amount, I could have poured less on my finger. Add salt and spices. Take them according to your taste. I have Italian herbs and ground black pepper.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Close the lid and turn on the "Quenching" mode, set the time to 20 minutes. After the end signal, open the lid, mix the paste and leave it to stand under the closed lid for another 5 minutes to absorb the remaining water.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Arrange the pasta with minced meat on plates, serve with cheese and herbs. Bon appetit!

As I said, I had an excess of water, so there wasn't much left at the end. But this did not prevent the pasta from being delicious and appetizing. A good dish for a magical assistant!

Tomatoes in this recipe can be replaced with ketchup, tomatoes in their own juice or tomato paste. Choose the proportions to your taste.

Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode in the recipe are given approximately. All slow cookers work differently and even the same models of the same manufacturer may have their own characteristics. Before you start cooking a new dish for you in a slow cooker, carefully study the instructions for it, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique. 

How to cook pasta properly, how to cook pasta al dente, how to choose a quality product to avoid disappointment and much more read in the article "Pasta and pasta - the subtleties of choice and secrets of cooking" .

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Pasta, premium, fortified - 337   kcal/100g
  • Pasta, premium, dairy - 309   kcal/100g
  • Pasta, premium grade, egg - 342   kcal/100g
  • Pasta made from flour of the 1st grade - 333   kcal/100g
  • Pasta made of flour in / with - 338   kcal/100g
  • Boiled pasta - 135   kcal/100g
  • Pasta - 338   kcal/100g
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Spices dry - 240   kcal/100g

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