In the UK it seems we make spaghetti bolognese all wrong, not mixing the spaghetti in with the sauce being the biggest thing but we also use pork mince rather than beef mince. So wanting to keep this tradition of making it wrong but wanting to mix in the spaghetti I decided to do a vegitarian version using just a handful of ingredients.
Here's what I used.
A splash of cooking oil
Mushrooms cut into quarters.
Yellow pepper.
1 clove of garlic (I would use more but the wife isn't keen on garlic.)
1 box of tomato passata.
Dried mix herbs.
spaghetti.
To start I put on a pan of spaghetti and in a larger pan I poured in some oil and then chucked in some quartered mushrooms, a chopped yellow pepper and the crushed garlic clove. Heating the pan I stirred the contents till they cooked and went soft.
The passata is then added to the pan along with the dried mixed herbs and everything is stirred in.
The pan is left to simmer until the spaghetti is ready to be added.
I then added the spaghetti to the pan and a little of the water from the spaghetti pan. Everything is stirred and the pan is left to simmer for a few more minutes.
Served onto plates you can then season to taste and add some grated hard cheese and it's ready to eat.
Quick, easy and the speghetti tastes far better for being mixed into the sauce.
Thanks Italy for a great and easy to make dinner and for the record your food is better than French food.