Pinoy Spaghetti
I guess you will be surprised if I told you that Spaghetti is a popular and favourite dish in Philippines. In most of the occasions like parties and gathering spaghetti will be the one of the main stays, even McDonald’s and other popular fast food chains have spaghetti on their menu. Now for those who haven’t tasted the Filipino spaghetti I must tell you that it may look similar to the Italian counterpart but there is a big difference, Pinoy spaghetti is sweet and extender ingredients are used like ham and hotdogs. These additional ingredients are not included for its flavour but more as an extender, since Philippines is a country that is not blessed with wealth we got used to extending a lot of dishes so it can feed more people while keeping in a tight budget, pure beef and pork mince are expensive compared to processed ham and hotdogs, we even thicken the sauce by adding more water and flour. Sometimes those extenders is what defines Filipino dishes though the primary reason is extending, subtly it gives that unique taste that is why when Filipinos cook this overseas the taste would be different as we tend to use better ingredients and realize that the simple version tasted better.
Now cooking it here in New Zealand is a bit of a challenge specially achieving the original sweet style flavour as we don’t have the same catsup (the commonly used one is Banana Catsup) and spaghetti sauce, that’s why here I use tomato based catsup with a combination of tomato paste. I hope you try this one out and let me know your thoughts on it.
Ingredients
Spaghetti noodles
400g minced beef
400g minced pork
200g hotdogs or frankfurters, sliced
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 large bottle sweet style tomato ketchup or banana ketchup
410g tomato puree
1 cup beef stock
2 tbsp flour
1 tsp rubbed sweet basil
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 big red onion, finely chopped
Quickmelt cheese or Colby, grated
freshly ground black pepper
sugar
salt
oil
Method
1. Cook the spaghetti noodles according to packet instructions.
2. In heavy pan add oil then sauté garlic and onions.
3. Add the beef and pork. Cook until the meat turns light brown.
4. Dissolve flour in beef stock.
4. Add the tomato ketchup, hotdogs, tomato paste, basil and dissolved flour mixture. Stir then simmer for 20 minutes, add water if needed.
5. Season with pepper, salt and sugar (Philippine style spaghetti is sweet so we add more of this). Simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
6. Plate the noodles and top it with the sauce. Top it with grated cheese.
comfort food!!!!
Oh, Merry Christmas to you and your family, Raymund!
Spaghetti is also becoming very popular at Malaysia, esp during the younger generation and my daughter can eat it almost everyday but for me, its the rice.
Will ask her to try this recipe for herself and I am sure she will enjoy it very much.
I agree I found a similar tasting spaghetti in Ming Tien SS2 before
This sure does look good! Like Spaghetti Bolognese. Yummy!
omy gooooodness….sooooooooooper tempting..:)
Tasty Appetite
And people used to laugh at me for putting ketchup on everything! This looks like a fun twist on spaghetti. And I can’t believe spaghetti is on a McD’s menu. Wow!
Wow, that is sweet! Spaghetti being popular worldwide doesn’t surprise me, the stuff’s great!
This sounds like good family comfort food! The sweet vibe to it reminds me a bit of Japanese-style spaghetti, which also uses ketchup — but not the banana kind. I’ll have to try this version!
I’ve heard of McDonald’s carrying regional favorites, but had no idea spaghetti was one of them. wow!
I just has Spaghetti tonight.. but I didn’t see this recipe until now. I have to try out your recipe when I make it again
I didn’t realize that there were sweet-style spaghetti recipes elsewhere. Cincinnati chili is another, and one I only came to know when visiting there in recent years. It’s “chili”, yes, but it happens to be traditional in Cincy to serve it like a Bolognese sauce over spaghetti. (I like Skyline’s best.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_chili
I love Pinoy Spaghetti! Sometimes I add in some longanisa into mine… Not sure if that’s the “right” way to cook it though… But thanks for this great recipe! I’ve never actually made Pinoy Spaghetti from scratch before!
I have never added sausages to a mince meat sauce before – great flavour addition.
Mandy
yeah, filipinos know how to extend a food alright to keep things within the budget..
I love Filipino spaghetti! Whenever I make it here (in the US) I make a special trip up to the giant International grocery store specifically to get the bright red Filipino hot dogs and banana ketchup
We had this when we were in the Philippines a few years ago. My siblings are Filipino… I should make this for them. They’d love it!
Omg this is the way my nanny used to cook for me when I was young!! (she was from the philippines)
now i cook something similar to this, except that i used stock cubes (due to time constraints) .
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Sweet style spaghetti is kinda made the mark of a Filipino spaghetti and pretty much a lot of kids love it and in most parties and gatherings it is also served. If people can’t find a banana ketchup, there is always Del Monte Sweet Style Spaghetti sauce. I don’t know if it’s available there though.
try adding liver spread
Interesting, will try this one next
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