Monday night dinner!!!

It’s a workday night and Mondays are usually rough. Here’s a quick pasta dish to try!



Minced Beef Linguine


Ingredients :
Extra Lean mince, 500g
1 medium finely grated carrot,
1/2 a diced green pepper (optional)
1 tray pottebello mushrooms - diced,
Basil pesto - 2 tablespoons (I used Woolies)
1 medium diced onion
1 packet Knorr Spaghetti Bolgannaise sauce powder,
1 jar Tomato Basil with olives Sauce 400grams,
extra virgin olive oil,
salt and pepper,
parmesan cheese and fresh basil for garnish.

Method : In a pot add olive oil, basil pesto, onion, carrot and mushrooms, peppers and saute, add the mince, brown well.

Add the Knorr sauce powder add a little boiled water so as not to clump up and stir.

Add the tomatoe basil with olive sauce stir and cook for 5-7 minutes.

Cook for 2-3 minutes on low heat. Switch off the heat.
Add Salt and black pepper to taste.

Serve with wholewheat linguine.Garnish with basil and parmesan cheese (optional) and serve with a glass of wine. Enjoy

Re: Monday night dinner!!!

Looking at the recipe, it's a basic, very tasty, beef ragu. V's ragu uses a similar recipe.

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Quick right, it’s a basic Ragu recipe with a few short cuts

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Can be very quick but, done the way an Italian mama would do it, can take about 3hrs or so. V was taught the recipe by her bezzy who married an Italian chap.

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You’re lucky. I once asked an Italian colleague to part with her recipe for Ragu and she shot me down in flames in front of other colleagues! Some people!

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Excuse my ignorance, but is Ragu the same as Spag Bog?

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I'm the first to acknowledge this fact, Minx. I am the luckiest man alive to have met and married the "gorjus one".

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Good lord, I hadn't realised the Italians guarded their cuisine so ferociously! Or maybe it was just that particular Italian. When I come across a lovely recipe, either from somewhere else, or one I've made up, I'm more than happy to share it widely.

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Yes, Tubby. If you want to live to see another day, never, ever ask for spaghetti bolognese in an Italian-run, Italian restaurant. There is no such thing as bolognese sauce in Italy, you have to ask for spaghetti al ragu. By the way, a true Italian ragu has 50% beef mince and 50% pork mince in it.

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Cheers PV I will have to ask for the Hawaian Pizza then