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Pasta with minced meat and tomato paste
Pasta with minced meat and tomato paste is a simple dish to prepare. The ingredients needed for its preparation are almost always available at home, and they can also be bought on the way from work. Moreover, homemade preparation of the semi-finished product allows you to regulate the calorie content of the finished dish. For example, you can use turkey or chicken as the meat for the minced meat, resulting in a healthy and low-calorie lunch. Or, conversely, add pork to make the dish richer, juicier, and, of course, higher in calories. This dish is a good addition to the diet of men engaged in physical labor. The combination of meat and pasta (proteins and carbohydrates) is nutritious and filling. If you don't know how to prepare pasta with minced meat and tomato paste, then a step-by-step recipe with photos is specially for you.
Caloric content: 242 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- pasta - 300 g;
- minced meat - 300 g;
- onion - 1 pcs;
- carrot - 1 pcs;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp;
- tomato paste - 3 tbsp;
- salt - to taste;
- black ground pepper - to taste.
Preparation
- Let's move on to preparing the dish. If we make the minced meat ourselves, we chop the meat using a meat grinder right away with the onion. If it is store-bought, then we add chopped onion to it.
- Wash, peel, and grate the carrot.
- In heated sunflower oil, sauté the carrot with the onion until soft.
- Add the minced meat to them, fry them together for 10 minutes, constantly stirring with a spatula so that the minced meat does not form large lumps.
- At the same time, boil the pasta in salted water. Place the pasta in boiling water, stir immediately, lifting them from the bottom. Cook them over medium heat for about 8 minutes. Usually, the required cooking time is indicated on the packaging of such products. You can use pasta of any shape and type, but it's better if they are made from durum wheat, so they do not become too large and sticky after boiling. The pasta should be boiled so that they are slightly firm to the taste. Drain the water and put the pasta in a colander.
- Transfer them to the frying pan with minced meat and vegetables, mix. Add the tomato paste. If there is no ready-made tomato paste, you can use any sauce made from tomatoes and other vegetables, fresh tomatoes, finely chopped, can be used in the same way. Cover the frying pan with a lid and simmer the dish over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Pasta with minced meat and tomato paste is ready. Serve the dish at the table.
