Pasta With ZUCCHINI, TOMATO & MINCED MEAT Sauce! Easy DINNER IN 30 MIN! Recipe by Always Yummy!
Tasty, mouth-watering and hearty Italian-style dish of pasta in a sauce of tomato, squash and meat mince is cooked in a pan and takes only 30 minutes of your time.
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✅ Ingredients:
• pasta – 10 oz | 300 g
• meat mince – 14 oz | 400 g
• zucchini squash – 12 oz | 350 g
• cherry tomatoes – 7 oz | 200 g
• parmesan cheese or any hard one – 1 oz | 40 g
• garlic – 3 cloves
• onion – 3 oz | 100 g
• olive oil – 2 tbsp
• tomato paste – 2 tbsp
• dried basil – ½ tsp
• ground black pepper – ½ tsp
• red chili flakes - ⅓ tsp
• salt – 1,5 tbsp
✔︎You will need:
• carving board
• pan
• stockpot
• colander
????Preparation:
1. Cut the zucchini into slices of 0,4 in | 1 cm, chop up the bulb onion, halve the cherry tomatoes and mince the garlic.
2. Pour 3,2 qt | 3 l of water into a stockpot, add 1 tbsp of olive oil, 1 tbsp of salt, bring to a boil and cook the pasta until al dente. If not indicated on a package how to cook al dente, then boil 1-1,5 minutes less than indicated on it. Pour off 7 fl oz | 200 ml of the water the pasta boiled in.
3. Meanwhile heat a pan with 1 tbsp of olive oil, add the meat mince and fry stirring for 5 minutes over medium heat.
4. Add the chopped up onion, stir well and fry over medium heat for 3 minutes.
5. Add the minced garlic and tomato paste into the pan, stir and fry for a minute over medium heat.
6. Add then the cherry tomatoes, 1 tsp of salt, ground black pepper, dried basil and red chili flakes, stir and fry for 2 minutes over medium heat.
7. Add that 7 fi oz | 200 ml of the water, the pasta boiled in, stir and simmer for 3 minutes over medium heat.
8. Add the sliced squash, stir and simmer with the lid covered for 5 minutes over medium heat.
9. Reduce the heat to low, drain the pasta and add into the pan, stir well, add the grated parmesan or other hard cheese and stir well.
10. Serve the tomato, squash and meat mince pasta hot, sprinkled with grated parmesan and chopped basil leaves or parsley