Classic Pinoy Spaghetti
May 15, 2004
Filed under Filipino food, Noodles recipes
My kids have guests. Their friends slept over last night. When your customers are voracious kids, you feed them accordingly right? And when the kids are fastfood afficionados, like my kids’ guests, well, some adjustments are called for. While we generally prefer to experiment with pasta sauces, I decided that preparing the classic pinoy spaghetti was the best option. I cheated a little though. No one knew they ate lots of veggies too.
What is classic pinoy spaghetti? It’s ground beef, sliced hotdogs and a sweetish kind of spaghetti sauce. I added lots of chopped onions, tomatoes, bell peppers and carrots and cooked the sauce until the vegetables were so soft the kids would not be able to see them distinctly.
The kids loved it, of course!
A few things about ground beef. When buying ground beef in the supermarket, it is best to choose a slab of beef then have it ground instead of buying packed ground beef. That way, you will see just how much the fat content is. You can choose which part of the cow it comes from too. You can choose the brisket, sirloin, top-round, bottom-round… There are also rumors going around that some supermarkets substitute beef with carabeef. While there is nothing really wrong with carabeef, it takes much, much longer to cook.
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im gonna try this spaghetti kasi bday ng mom ko.il tell u if okey or not after everybody will try it.
sige and take care
thank you so much its my 1st time to cook for my moms surprise birthday thank you it really help she loves it:smile:
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i used mushroom and tomato sauces for this recipe due to no sweet style spag sauce here in KL and just added sugar and milk and it was fantastic! my hubby and his friends had second servings! i really want to thank you ms connie for this amazing site (i have become dependent on it ever since i got married =) and i always recommend pinoycook.net to my friends and family. more power!
I just wanted to let you know I tried your spaghetti recipe last night. Brought me back so many memories from the spaghetti I enjoyed as a child. (all the chopping for my inexperienced hands took a loooong time though haha). It was a hit with my brother, and with Woody, but our American guests unfortunately preferred the unsweetened version.
You’re absolutely right though, the sugar counteracts the acidity of the tomatoes. I used brown cane sugar cause we have no sweet-style spag sauce here. Sarap!
Oh and if you were wondering what happened to the baked macaroni I was planning to cook, I errr, tried something I thought would be easier to make.
True, pinayhekmi, only Pinoys seem to be fond of sweet-style pasta. Works well for hyperacidic people like me and my younger daughter though.
masarap ang klase ng spaghetti na ‘to, wala nang sasarap pa sa filipino spaghetti.
hello
i just love your site..good thing meron kayong clssic spag kasi we are about to make spag today for my anak and pamagkin . thank you and more power!!!
Thnx 4 the spaghetti recipe. Fr seattle boy
i had an experience with a ground beef request in a big supermarket. as i am also wary of the “real” cut of beef in ground beef, i requested for sirloin to be grounded right on the spot. they would not give in to the request unless i buy 5 kgs. so, not having enough budget for 5 kgs of ground beef, i had to settle for what they claim to be sirloin ground beef in the counter. too bad for me huh?!
Is there a recipe for the sweet style spaghetti sauce? I haven’t seen this pre-made sauce anywhere. Thanks!
hi i tried this recipe and they are like it
well there are some changes that i made.. like i dont have bell peppers in the fridge.. and i dont have carrots too so i just put some sugar instead.. and then pff it turned good and my father - in - law and my hubby is white and they liked it! : ) Thanks! and o btw this is the first time i cooked spaghetti in my whole life.. haha
hi Ms.connie. I cooked ur classic pinoy spaghetti recipe yesterday because it was my natal day. Guess what, My family loves it. yes of course I love it,too! Thank you very much Ms.Connie for sharing ur recipe’s with us. We love it…BTW, can I ask u something? what is alige sauce? some of the restaurant in the philippines use it for spaghetti sauce..sabe nila, as in masarap raw….Can you tell me what it is? I am looking forward for your response here..I’ll going to check every now and then. Thanks Ms. Connie..More power & God Bless to you and your family….
Belated happy birthday, Aims!
Thanks Ms.Connie for the greetings! More power & God bless to u and ur family…
Thank you very much for the recipe, my wife and kids will surely love it. God bless.
hi there. its my son’s 3rd birthday on Monday, December 3 and i planning to cook your recipe miss connie.Hope i can cook the way you cook so that the kids will love it.anyway thanx for the nice and mouth watering recipe.i will inform you if the kids will love it.
more power to your site.
thanks for the recipe ms. connie.
do you have a recipe for the sweet-style spaghetti sauce?
wala kasing canned na ganun dito eh.
Thanks for sharing your cooking skills. I noticed that you do your cooking from scratch. That’s very good because I don’t like using ready mixes although they are sometimes good in some cases especially here in the US when time seem to be a lot faster than in Phils.