Budget pasta Bolognese

Budget pasta Bolognese

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A budget-friendly Bolognese sauce: frozen ground meat, canned tomatoes, and onions are all you need to make a family-sized pasta dish, ready in just 25 mi…

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With a few inexpensive ingredients, you can create a flavorful and comforting tomato-based sauce. Frozen hamburgers, ground into a pulp, replace the traditional ground beef.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time10 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Total25 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodFrying in a pan

Ingredients

3 people
  • $0.41
  • $3.35
  • $0.09
  • $0.50
  • $0.44

Directions

  1. Cook the pasta according to the package instructions.
  2. Cut the thawed hamburgers into strips and pulse them in a food processor until they form a paste.
  3. Finely chop the onions and garlic, and cut the fresh tomatoes into pieces. ≈ 8 min
  4. Chop the peeled tomatoes into small pieces, or blend them in a food processor. ≈ 8 min
  5. Heat some oil in a frying pan and sauté the onion and garlic until they are browned.
  6. Add the ground meat and brown it for one minute, stirring constantly. ≈ 3 min
  7. Pour the contents of the tomato box into… ≈ 3 min
  8. Heat the sauce for a few minutes.
  9. Add the fresh tomato pieces and allow them to heat through.
  10. Add the Italian herbs. ≈ 3 min
  11. Season the sauce with pepper and salt. ≈ 2 min
  12. Pour the sauce over the pasta and serve. ≈ 2 min

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 360 g of pasta (ideally spaghetti)
  • 2 onions
  • 2 fresh tomatoes
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 can of peeled tomatoes (400g net)
  • 300 g of cheap, frozen hamburgers
  • olive oil, black pepper (preferably), and salt

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