Spaghetti With Bolognese Sauce(Italian with Rani's Magic)

Ingredients for the sauce:

 Beef / chicken - 300 g (minced)

olive oil/any veg oil -  2 tbs

spices:

Dried oregano - 1 tea spoon

Dried basil leaves - 1 tea spoon

Ground thyme - 1 tea spoon

red chili powder - 1 tbs

black pepper powder - 1 1/2 tbs

all spice powder - a pinch

Vegetables:

Carrots - 2 medium size(diced finely)

celery - 1 rib(diced finely)

capsicum( red /yellow/green) - 1 medium size ( diced finely)

garlic - 6 cloves(chopped finely)

 large onions  - 2 medium size( chopped finely )

Tomato - 3 medium size (chopped finely)

tomato puree - boil 4 tomatoes and blend it

grated cheese - 2 tbs for serving(optional)

water - 2 cup

Salt - as your taste

Method:

Heat the oil into a sizable sauce pan over a medium heat. Fry the chopped onions and garlics .Add minced meat and all the spices. Fry until the meat is brown. Add chopped tomatoes and stir well. After that put the remaining vegetables and stir continuously and add tomato puree and stir again. Finally add water and salt to taste. Cover the pan with a lid.Cook it for 20-30 minutes in a medium heat.Then remove the lid and cook the sauce until gravy form. Turn off the heat.Thereby the spicy bolognese sauce is ready. You can serve it with cooked spaghetti noodles/pasta with grated cheese.

How to make spaghetti noodles/pasta?

Ingredients:

spaghetti noodles/pasta - 500 g (serving per package 5-6 people)

Water - 4 liters( 500 g of pasta usually needs 4 liters of water)

salt - 2 table spoons

Oil - 2 table spoons( adding oil to the boiling water prevents the pasta from sticking)

Method:

Heat a large pot with water(you need a large pot with enough space so that pasta will not stick together).When the water is boiled add oil and salt.Then add pasta in the boiling water.No need to cover the pot or else water might over flow.Cook it for 9-10 minutes .To check if pasta is cooked, take and cut a piece of pasta to see if it is cooked in the inside, if not cooked then let it cook for 1-5 minutes.Then drain the pasta and shock them in cold water.Remember, the heat in the heap will continue cooking the noodles to a soggy bunch. When the noodles is ready, you could serve it with bolognese sauce.

Bon Appetit...enjoy!!!!