Saturday, December 26, 2009

Oven-baked Meat sauce and cheese pasta--VERY Similar to the one in Pizza Hut!!

First of all, WOW...can't believe it was so long ago since we last posted. Sorry for not updating for a while. It has been a busy end-of-the-year for all of the authors of the blog. But we're still here. Struggling, but still here (I hope. At least I am).

Pizza Hut spaghetti

My version of it :)


So, I went to Pizza hut a month ago and tried their meat sauce spaghetti. They called it spaghetti, but it was actually the rottini pasta. Anyways, I fell in love with it immediately after the first bite. So good, so good. Sorry for the lack of word to describe the tastiness. It was, however, not cheap.

I dreamed about it even in my sleep. I hungered for it for a few weeks and I decided to search for the recipe online. Nope. Couldn't find the exact same one. I mixed a few of the recipes of pasta and spaghetti sauce I found online to make the pasta so close to the one in Pizza Hut it made me cry...well, almost.

So here we go.

Servings: 4 people
Ingredients:
1. Rottini Pasta: 1 bag
2. Hunts Meat sauce: 3/4 of a can.
3. Mozerella chesse: 1 cup
4. Parmesan Chesse: 1/2 cup
5. Ground beef: half pound.
6. Half of an onion, diced.
7. 3 to 4 cloves of garlic, diced.
8. 2 table spoon of Olive oil
9. pepper and salt to taste


Instructions:
--Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (Fahrenheit).
--Boil a pot of water and cook the pasta with a teaspoon of salt. When the pasta is cooked, dump the hot water and rinse the pasta in cold water. Drained the pasta.

Sauce:
1. Heat the olive oil in the pan on medium high fire.
2. Stir in the garlic and onion. Fry til the onion gets soft.
3. Pour in and stir fry the ground beef til it's not pink anymore.
4. Pour in the meat sauce and stir the mixture evenly.
5. Keep stirring til the mixture starts boiling.
6. Mix the drained and cooked pasta into the mixture and mix them evenly.
7. Add the parmesan cheese and stir.
8. Add in some pepper and salt to taste.
9. Turn off the fire and pour the pasta and meat sauce into the 9x13 tin-foiled baking pan.
10. Sprinkle and cover the pasta with the mozerella cheese.
11. Put the pan in the preheated oven and let it cook for 15 to 20 minutes.

Voila! Pizza-hut style "spaghetti".


Happy Cooking!