Healthy Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe
Ingredients
- 400 g spaghetti or other pasta
- olive or canola oil spray
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 500 g lean beef mince
- 2 celery, diced
- 2 carrots, grated
- 2 x 400 g can no-added-salt diced tomatoes
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- green side salad, to serve
Method
- Place spaghetti in a pot of boiling water on stove. Cook for 10 minutes.
- Spray a frying pan with oil.
- Gently cook onion and garlic until soft.
- Spray frying pan with a little more oil and brown mince, breaking up with a wooden spoon.
- Add in celery and carrot, reducing heat to medium, stirring constantly, for 3-5 minutes.
- Once vegetables have cooked through add tomatoes to pan.
- Stir over high heat for 5 minutes.
- Once spaghetti is cooked, drain the water and serve onto a dinner plate.
- Top spaghetti with a scoop of the meat bolognaise sauce.
- Sprinkle with cheese and serve with a garden salad.
Variation: Replace half the mince with a can of lentils to reduce the cost and increase the veg.
Serving Suggestion: Serve with a garden salad.
Healthy tip!
Chilli, lemon and herbs add flavour - great alternatives to butter and salt!
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Nutrition Information
| per serving | per 100g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 2674 kJ | 448 kJ |
| 639 Cal | 107 Cal | |
| Protein | 39 g | 6 g |
| Fat, total | 13 g | 2 g |
| — saturated | 6 g | 1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 85 g | 14 g |
| — sugars | 10 g | 2 g |
| Sodium | 869 mg | 145 mg |
| Fibre | 10 g | 2 g |
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Comments (1)
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Use zucchini "vegetti" instead of pasta
Bart Katarski
Posted on: 02 Jan 16
