Easy Filipino Style Spaghetti Recipe

This Easy Filipino Style Spaghetti Recipe is a Filipino adaptation of Italian spaghetti. It has a sweet sauce, usually made from tomato sauce sweetened with brown sugar or banana ketchup. It is topped with sliced hot dogs, ground meat, and grated cheese. It is regarded as comfort food in Philippine cuisine. It is served on almost any special occasion, especially on children’s birthdays.

Filipino spaghetti is cheap and easy to make, which is part of the reason for its popularity. First, minced garlic and onions are sautéed in oil in a large pan until they caramelize. The ground meat is added and cooked until it is brown. Sliced hot dogs are then added. It can be replaced with other processed meat like smoked longganisa sausages, ham, Vienna sausages, meatballs, luncheon meat, spam, or corned beef. It is cooked for a few more minutes before the tomato sauce mixture is poured into the pan. Some people use store-bought spaghetti sauce as the base for convenience.

Recipe for Filipino Style Spaghetti:

Easy Filipino Style Spaghetti Recipe

Recipe by Yummy FoodCourse: MainCuisine: FilipinoDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

Total time

50

minutes

This Easy Filipino Style Spaghetti Recipe is a Filipino adaptation of Italian spaghetti. It has a sweet sauce, usually made from tomato sauce sweetened with brown sugar or banana ketchup.

Ingredients

• 1 kg. spaghetti noodles

• 1/2 kg. ground beef

• 1/2 kg. ground pork

• 1/4 kg. hotdogs, diagonally sliced

• 1 kg. tomato sauce (or 3/4 kg. tomato sauce and 1/4 kg. banana catsup)

• 3 pieces laurel leaves (bay leaves)

• 1/4 cup brown or white sugar (reduce to 1/8 cup if using banana catsup)

• 2 green bell peppers, diced

• 2 onions, chopped

• 1 head garlic, minced

• 3 tablespoons of cooking oil

• 1 cup of water

• Salt and pepper to taste

• 1/2 cup grated cheese

Directions

• Cook spaghetti noodles according to package instructions.
• In a sauce pan or wok, sauté garlic and onions in cooking oil.
• Add ground beef, ground pork, laurel leaves, bell pepper and a cup of water. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add tomato sauce or combination of banana catsup and tomato sauce, salt and pepper to taste then let simmer for another 10 minutes
• Add brown sugar and hotdogs. Continue to simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
• Optional: add hot sauce e.g. Tabasco for more spice if desired.
• Serve with the cooked spaghetti noodles and grated cheese on top.

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