Main Meals
Spicy Bolognaise Pasta Bake
01
Aug
Aug
We love a good pasta bake in our house and this is a beauty, it starts on the stove top and finishes in the oven, you need an oven proof casserole dish that you can also use on the stove top, or use a fry pan then transfer to a casserole dish to finish.
You can use mild or hot salami or chorizo sausage to make it as spicy or as mild as you like, it makes for delicious comfort bowl food, and makes a large amount so there is plenty of leftovers for lunches or make two smaller bakes, one to eat and one to freeze for later.
You don’t even need to cook the pasta first, it cooks in the sauce as it simmers in the pan, how good is that.
Spicy Bolognaise
Spicy Beef Bolognaise Bake
Ingredients
- 30 ml Olive Oil
- 2 tsp Garlic, chopped
- 1 tsp Chilli, chopped
- 1 Brown Onion, diced
- 1/2 Red Capsicum, diced
- 4 Bacon Rashers, diced
- 100 gm Chorizo or Salami, diced
- 1 kg Minced beef
- 1 Carrot, grated or diced
- 2 Stalks Celery, diced
- 1 Zucchini, grated or diced
- 2 Tbsp Smoked Paprika
- 1 Can Crushed tomatoes
- 1 Can Tomato Soup or double the tomatoes
- 2 Cups Dry Macaroni or other small pasta
- 1 1/2 Cup Pizza Cheese
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large oven proof pan if you have one, fry off onion, capsicum, bacon, chorizo, celery, carrot and zucchini with garlic until softened.
- Add minced beef, fry until browned, add smoked paprika, cooking 2 minutes.
- Add tomatoes and tomato soup if using, with 2 cans water, simmer 10 minutes
- In a bowl or jug place pasta and cover with boiling water, soak for 5-10 minutes
- Preheat oven 180 C
- Add drained pasta and simmer 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese, bake in oven for 20 minutes or until cheese has browned.
- Serve with a salad.
Notes
You can make this just as a pasta sauce, if so leave out the water and the pasta and then serve over your favourite pasta.
I often make 2, one to eat and one to freeze for later, I don’t do the oven bake step though for the freezer one.
