SPAGHETTI

★★★★☆

This delicious spaghetti main is diabetes-friendly, making it suitable for everyone's dinner.

Recipe by Liz Macri

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 medium brown onion, finely chopped
• 1 medium carrot, peeled, finely chopped
• 1 stick celery, trimmed, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 500g beef mince
• 1/3 cup tomato paste
• 2 x 400g cans diced tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• Large pinch ground nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons SPLENDA® Granular
• 500g thin spaghetti
• Grated or flaked parmesan cheese, to serve

Method

1. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook onion, carrot, celery and garlic, stirring, for 5 minutes or until softened. Add mince. Cook, breaking up with a wooden spoon, for 6 to 8 minutes or until browned.
2. Add paste, tomatoes, oregano, nutmeg, SPLENDA® and 1/2 cup cold water. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Simmer, uncovered, for 20 to 30 minutes or until thick. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Meanwhile, cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling, salted water, following packet directions, until tender. Drain.
4. Divide pasta among serving bowls. Spoon over sauce. Serve topped with cheese.

Comments

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★★★★☆

padgo

added this comment at 07:15pm Tue 16th September, 2014

"i added brown sugar, some vege stock and half a can of tomato soup, super nice :)"

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jec782

added this comment at 06:36am Sat 23rd November, 2013

"Dinner is cooking away as I'm typing this post. I cheated with the onions, carrot and celery and used a food processor to finely chop the three ingredients, used one 125gm tub of Leggos Tomato Paste and two tins of Ardmona Rich & Thick diced tomatoes mixed herb flavour. It is so easy to make and smells good too while I'm waiting!!!"

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hazeldow

added this comment at 05:45am Tue 5th November, 2013

"I will never buy the stuff in a jar again! This was really easy and quick to make, and delicious. I used half a cup of beef stock instead of water, but that was the only tweak."