Cooking Advice:
In this episode of cooking advice, we will be taking you through the steps to cook up a tasty Bolognese! Healthy and nutritious, but also tasty! A go to dish that you can cook for anyone.
So, let’s get to it!
Preparation:
Utensils:
2 saucepans
1 knife
1 Chopping board
1 Spoon
1 colander (To drain the pasta. You could just hold a saucepan lid over the saucepan and pour the water out if you want)
Ingredients:
Of course, portion sizes will vary. It’s a personal preference but try remain healthy.
Mince beef
Pasta (spaghetti, penne, whatever takes your fancy)
Bolognese Sauce (Buy a jar from the shops)
Vegetables (add a small bit of veg, get some of your 5 a day! Peppers, and Onion Maybe?)
Garlic Bread (If you fancy it. Again, Buy it from the shops.)
Some spice? Maybe you want to include a small bit of chili? Be careful, you don’t want to ruin the meal with too much spice!
Cheese? Maybe you would like to drizzle some grated cheese over the top of the mince once fished.
Cleaning:
Before you start make sure all your utensils and surfaces are nice and clean. Make sure you clean your surfaces as you go. It will mean less work after cooking!
Timings:
Overall this meal should take approximately 30 minutes to cook.
Mince 30 minutes
Veg/ Sauce 20 minutes
Pasta 15 Minutes
Cooking:
Mince cooked on its own first for approx. 10 minutes. Stir the mince well as it cooks to make sure it’s cooked throughout. (Chop your Veg during the 10 minutes this takes to cook until brown)
Bolognese Sauce added along with the Vegetables after the 10 minutes. Left cooking for about 5 minutes at a high heat then reduced after to simmer.
If you want Garlic Bread now is a good time to put the oven on at 200 degrees. To get it heated up. ( you shouldn’t put the bread in the oven yet though, just let the oven heat up.)
When placing the Sauce and Vegetables into the same saucepan as the meat then put the kettle on to boil water.
Once the water has boiled, place your pasta into the second saucepan and pour the boiled water over it. Although this to come to the boil then reduce the temperature down to a simmer. (Pasta will generally take about 15 minutes to cook.
If you chose to cook Garlic Bread, now add the garlic bread into the oven. It will be ready in 15 minutes.
After the half hour and completing the above tasks your pretty much done. Taste the past to make sure its cooked.
Drain the water from the pasta saucepan by pouring it into the colander.
Plate up the pasta into bowls using a spoon (or a spaghetti spoon) then add the Bolognese sauce, mince and veg with a spoon poured over the top of the pasta.
Season your dish as you wish with some salt and pepper. Now is the time to put some grated cheese over the top of it too if you want.
Cleaning:
Leave the saucepans to steep in water while you go and enjoy your meal.
Eat:
Well done on cooking your meal sit back relax and enjoy it. You deserve it after that. Cooking will win you some brownie points with who ever you cooked for too. Be sure to cash in on them when you can!
