Fusilli With Homemade Bolognese Sauce

When your kids love pasta, you thank God for it coz it is the most easy to prepare one dish meal...agree with me ? :)  For me, it is easy and taste good and healthy for them too.  I prepared the bolognese sauce in advance for them  so that it is easier for them...all they have to do is just cook the pasta - fusilli for their lunch.   Many of you will think that I pampered them too much....why have kids when you don't pamper them :p  But the truth is I love cooking so that is just an excuse ....otherwise who is going to eat the stuff I cook...so at times like this one have to use pyschology a bit ....tell them u pamper them..and they will wallop everything up and even lick the dish clean LOL!

they love the bolognese sauce thick and lots of cheese and herbs in it

beef meatballs and button mushrooms makes the dish

yummy...:)

I can't help it.... as soon as the sauce is ready, I cooked some fusilli

and  helped myself to a plate of pasta deliciousness

Fusilli With Homemade Bolognese Sauce

 ( serve 6 persons )

Fusilli pasta - 1 pkt 500gm - cooked till al dente

Garnishing - parmesan cheese

Bolognese sauce -

300 minced beef

1 big can of tomato puree

1 small tin of tomato paste

2  ripe fresh tomatoes - diced

1 can of button  mushroom- sliced or diced
2 red onions- diced

1 tbsp of mixed herbs

1 tbsp of oregano

1 tsp of ground black pepper

1 tsp of sugar

3/4 cup of water

sea salt to taste

5 pips of garlic - chopped

cheddar cheese - amount to taste

2 tbsp olive oil

Method:

Heat olive oil in a non stick pot and saute garlic till fragrant over medium low heat.  Add in the minced beef and diced onions and stir fry till cooked, add in the tomato puree and tomato paste and fresh tomatoes , all the mixed herbs and black pepper and stir them together till well mixed. Add in water and let it simmer for 15 minutes under low heat.  Add in the mushroom and continue to cook till it is aromatic and the scent of mixed herbs is in the air.  Add sugar and salt to taste. Add in the cheese last. Add in the beef meatballs when the sauce is ready to use.

Beef Meatballs

ingredients:

500 gm of minced beef
1 cup of bread crumbs
1 tsp of ground black pepper
5 sprigs of italian parsley - chopped
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
1 tbsp of olive oil
3/4 tbsp of corn flour

oil for deep frying

Method:-

Mixed all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl till evenly incorporated. Leave to rest for 1/2 hour.  Heat up the wok with enough oil for deep frying under medium heat. When oil is ready for frying, shape the minced  beef  into  balls and deep fry till cooked and lightly golden brown. Dish up and place them on paper towel to absorb the oil.  Add the meatballs into the bolognese sauce and let the sauce infused into the meatballs. Served them with the cooked fusilli and garnish with parmesan cheese.

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