Description
A quick and easy alternative to lasagne. Always a hit with the kiddies. Serve as is or with salad and garlic bread for a complete meal.
Ingredients
Scale
- 200g thick spaghetti pasta or pasta of choice
- 100g grated cheese, to top
Meat sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 onion, peeled and quartered
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 celery stick, chopped
- 1 large zucchini, chopped
- Olive oil
- 4 rashers of bacon, diced
- 400g good quality beef mince
- 170g tomato paste
- 1 beef stock cube or 1 teaspoon of beef stock paste
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- Salt and pepper
White sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon mustard powder
- Salt and pepper
- 500g milk
- 50g butter
- 50g flour
- 50g grated cheese
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to directions on packet. Drain and place in the bottom of a large casserole dish.
- Place onion and garlic into bowl.
- Blitz on speed 7 for 5 seconds.
- Scrape down.
- Add a drizzle of oil and cook at 100 degrees, speed 2 for 5 minutes.
- Add celery, carrot and zucchini.
- Blitz on speed 7 for 5 seconds. Scrape down. Repeat. We like it quite fine.
- Add bacon and large clumps of mince.
- Cook on soft speed, reverse, 100 degrees for 5 minutes.
- Add tomato paste, stock, sauce and season well with salt and pepper.
- Cook on soft speed, reverse, 100 degrees for 12 minutes. Don’t worry if there are any clumps that look a little point. these will cook through in the oven.
- Pour over the top of the pasta.
- Clean the bowl.
- Add all white sauce ingredients except cheese.
- Cook at 90 degrees, speed 4 for 12 minutes.
- Add cheese.
- Cook at 90 degrees, speed 4 for 2 minutes.
- Pour over mince layer.
- Top with grated cheese and bake until golden. Approximately 20-30 minutes.
- Serve as is or with salad and garlic bread for a complete meal.
- Prep Time: 25
- Cook Time: 20
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4