Spaghetti with meat sauce ( Μακαronia me kima in Greek)

SPAGHETTI WITH MEAT SAUCE

(Recipe for 4 people)

Ingredients

Sauce

600 g. ground beef

2 large onions

5 cloves garlic

150 g. olive oil
1 bay leaf

2 seeds allspice
4 large ripe tomatoes (700g approx.)

Salt, pepper

Very little red chili pepper

Pasta 

Ingredients

500 g. spaghetti or linguini no 7

2 tablespoons olive oil

Salt to taste

250 grams grated parmesan cheese.

Instructions

Sauce

Put over medium heat, a saucepan. Put in it oil, chopped onions and garlic and stir.

Let onions to sauté and stir them from time to time.

Add the mince meat, some salt and little red chili pepper.

Mix often the minced meat with a wooden spatula and break the lumps that form.

Cover the saucepan with its lid and decrease the heat more.

Let the minced meat produce all its fluids and boil slowly in them.

Mix often the minced meat and check its fluids.

Rinse tomatoes and mash them in the blender.

Once the fluids of the minced meat are reduced, pour into the saucepan the mashed tomatoes and stir.

Let the meat boil until it softens and absorbs most of its fluids.

Remove the saucepan from the heat and try the taste of the sauce.

Spaghetti

Put 4 l of water in a pot.

Place it over high heat.

Wait for the water to boil and put some salt in it.

Add the pasta and stir well to avoid sticking.  

Pasta takes about 8 minutes to boil.

The time required to cook each kind of pasta is written on its package.

Let the pasta to boil until it becomes as soft as you like it.

Put the pasta in the drainer and let it drain well.

Put the pasta back into the pot and add to it two tablespoons of olive oil and four tablespoons of the meat sauce.

Mix well so the sauce covers all the spaghetti.

Serving

Put the pasta in a deep dish.

In the center of spaghetti put as much meat sauce as you want..

Put over the sauce grated cheese.