Sauce for spaghetti
Description
Universal dressing for salads and hot dishes. This spaghetti sauce is versatile, based on just three ingredients—ground meat, tomato juice, and cream. Everything else is optional and added to taste. You can include chopped parsley or cilantro, onion, garlic. I particularly like adding whole grain mustard. Serve the sauce with meat, fish, or use it as a salad dressing.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all the necessary ingredients.
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Step 2
Finely chop the onion and garlic.
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Step 3
In a skillet, heat the vegetable oil, add the onion and garlic. Sauté until the onion becomes translucent.
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Step 4
Then add the ground meat and cook for the first minute, stirring constantly and mashing the meat with a spoon to make it as crumbly as possible.
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Step 5
When the minced meat is fried and starts browning, add tomato juice to the pan. My tomato juice is quite liquid, so I simmer it with the meat until it slightly thickens. If you don't have tomato juice, you can dilute about 1.5–2 tablespoons of tomato paste in 400 ml of water.
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Step 6
The liquid from the tomato juice evaporated, so I simmered the sauce for about 10 minutes. Now it's time to pour in the cream, add salt, your favorite spices, and whole grain mustard (you can use regular mustard too, but if it's very spicy, use just a little). My tomato juice was a bit sour, so I also added about 0.5 tablespoons of sugar.
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Step 7
Tomato-cream sauce for spaghetti is ready. It turned out bright, rich in flavor, and very aromatic.
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Step 8
The sauce is ready. Serve with dishes or store in the refrigerator.