This one always works for all and is dead easy so long as you don't mind chopping things!
Pasta sauce supremo
First of all i am rubbish with exact measurements but generally good at numbers ;0), this can be for either carnivores or vegetarians ...
One large onion
One large stick of celery
Two medium carrots
One regular yellow pepper (any colour will do I just like the colour)
One medium courgette
Half a pack of closed cup mushrooms/or a whole pack if going meat free
One bulb of garlic ( well to taste really, we like a lot)
One small pack of mince
One tin of chopped tomatoes
One pack of passata(or make your own with 2lb of toms de-seeded and de-skinned and roasted and pushed through a sieve)
Three tsp Italian herbs (or a bunch of fresh ones basil/oregano/parsley/sage)
black pepper to taste
spot of olive oil
splash of Worcester sauce
a stock cube beef/veg
Take all of the vegetables (the first five to start with) and dice them, all small and regular as you can in size, this basically keeps the cooking time for all similar. Carrots will take longer to cook through but this dish takes long enough to get them to the right state!
Plop a little olive oil in a heavy pan (large one), and pile in your diced veg on a medium heat, make sure you stir them now and then. basically you need the onions to become almost see through before adding anything else. The pan should not be sizzling .. i believe the term is 'sweating' but that always makes me feel a bit ew!
Next in are the mushrooms, which i slice thinly, this is the point at which you decide on the option of meat or not, without meat you add the whole pack, with meat just half. Stir those in and start them cooking.
Peel and crush/chop your garlic .. i crush , hubby chops ... we don't mention the war ;0) it is best to add less then add to it garlic can be added right up to the end so its all down to personal taste and strength of garlic on the day!
Carnivores now add meat, Worcester and cook through (veggies ignore this one)
Next in are the toms tin and then passatta (making your own tastes good but the packs are ok) This will also have to be down to eye as it depends how runny you like your sauce (ooo er!)
It is at this point that vegetarians should add all of their herbs and pepper and stock cube and leave to cook through (to bolster it up I add spinach sometimes right before eating) Your vegi sauce will be ready as soon as the carrots are in that case.
Carnivores i would advise cooking this on a low heat for about half an hour, beef mince is better the longer it is cooked. Sometimes I cook for half an hour then leave covered and cool and reheat when hubby returns from the salt mines.
Et Voila! lovely pasta sauce to spread over your paste (In Roo's case over his whole body!) A scrape of cheese on top is beaut!
Usually i blend a bit with my hand blender for Roo and chop some spaghetti and mix, he likes some spaghetti on his high chair tray to play with too. This goes down really well and makes small people and veg haters eat
their veg ;0)
Go on give it a go!!
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