The festive season is a time for joy, laughter, and delicious food. Myrts Christmas spaghetti is a classic holiday dish that is sure to please the whole family. This hearty and flavorful dish is made with a combination of spaghetti, meatballs, and a rich tomato sauce. The addition of spices such as oregano, basil, and garlic gives it a distinctive flavor that will make it a hit at any gathering. Whether you're cooking for a large family dinner or a cozy gathering of friends, this recipe is sure to make your holiday meal memorable.
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CHRISTMAS PASTA
We eat fish on Christmas Eve, no meat allowed. After Midnight Mass, all bets are off! We make this sauce for Christmas Day: you can't fit another meat in the pot! As many times as you reheat it, it just gets that much better, so if people are coming and going throughout the day, cook off only as much pasta as you need at the time -- half a pound for every 3 people. The sauce will cover up to 2 pounds of pasta. If you are making this full menu, prepare the fudge and chill while your sauce simmers and before you prepare your salad. When you are done eating your 30 minute meal, the fudge will have chilled for 45 minutes and will then be firm enough to slice. Happy Holidays and Merry Eating!
Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 35m
Yield 4 large servings
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Heat a deep pot over medium-high heat. Add pancetta and brown to render the fat. Transfer pancetta to paper towels to drain. To the pan add the oil, and the meats and brown and crumble them for 5 minutes. Stir in garlic, and pancetta bits.
- Chop carrot, celery, and onions near the stove and add to the pot as you work. Cook vegetables with meat 5 minutes and add wine. Cook for 1 minute; add stock and tomatoes to the pot.
- Stir in parsley, allspice, or cinnamon and season sauce with salt and pepper, to taste. Bring sauce to a boil, reduce heat to medium low, and cook 10 to 15 minutes, minimum, before serving. Reheated sauce only improves.
- Toss pasta (cook off only as much pasta as you need at the time: half a pound for every 3 people) with a couple of ladles of sauce to coat, then top bowl with extra sauce. Top pasta with lots of cheese and pass bread at the table.
CHRISTMAS PASTA
We eat fish on Christmas Eve - no meat allowed. After Midnight Mass, all bets are off! We make this sauce for Christmas Day; you can't fit another meat in the pot! As many times as you reheat it, it just gets that much better, so if people are coming and going throughout the day, cook off only as much pasta as you need at the time - half a pound for every three people.
Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 35m
Yield 4 large servings
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Heat a deep pot over medium high heat. Add oil, garlic, bay, and pancetta bits and brown for 1 minute. Add meats and brown and crumble them for 5 minutes.
- Chop carrot, celery, and onions near the stove and add to the pot as you work. Cook vegetables with meat 5 minutes and add wine. Cook for 1 minute; add stock and tomatoes to the pot.
- Stir in parsley, allspice, or cinnamon and season sauce with salt and pepper, to taste. Bring sauce to a boil, reduce heat to medium low, and cook 10 to 15 minutes minimum before serving. Reheated sauce only improves.
- Toss pasta (cook off only as much pasta as you need at the time: half a pound for every 3 people) with a couple of ladles of sauce to coat, then top bowl with extra sauce. Top pasta with lots of cheese and pass bread at the table.
CHRISTMAS SPAGHETTI PIE
One Christmas, like so many unfortunately, we were extremely pressed for money and still hadn't bought presents for the extended family. I went waaaay out on limb with this one and it was by far the most welcomed gift of the season to many - not to mention a whole lot of fun to put together and deliver. I went to the grocery store and got a bunch of free cardboard boxes (the best are the boxes that the egg cartons come in because they have handles) and I went to the dollar store to get some towels to place inside of the boxes. My kids "wrapped" the outside of the boxes in wrapping paper and I placed the spaghetti pie (cooked in disposable pie plates) on top of the towels, to keep warm, inside the boxes along with some garlic bread, a bottle of inexpensive wine, some brownies and a hand picked $5 dvd from walmart. We then delivered the piping hot packages a few days after the holidays when everyone needed a break from cooking and entertaining. It was so much fun and so well received that I can't believe I haven't done it every year since...
Provided by GotBoxer
Categories Spaghetti
Time 1h10m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Brown and drain the ground beef and sausage. Saute onion until tender and add the tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar, oregano and garlic salt. Combine the meat mixture and the tomato mixture, set aside.
- Cook spaghetti and combine with butter, parmesan cheese and eggs.
- Press mix into a 10 inch buttered pie plate making sure it goes up the sides of the plate making a sort of "pie crust".
- Spread ricotta cheese over the spaghetti and fill with the meat mixture.
- Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
- Sprinkle with mozzerella and bake an additional 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 403.5, Fat 23.4, SaturatedFat 10.9, Cholesterol 120.8, Sodium 704.6, Carbohydrate 25.3, Fiber 2.2, Sugar 5.2, Protein 23
CHRISTMAS PASTA - RACHAEL RAY
Make and share this Christmas Pasta - Rachael Ray recipe from Food.com.
Provided by ratherbeswimmin
Categories Pork
Time 1h
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil; add salt.
- Add in the rigatoni; cook to al dente per package directions.
- While the water and pasta work, heat a large nonstick skillet over med-high heat.
- Add in 1 tablespoon olive oil; add pancetta to one half of the skillet, the sausage (both hot and sweet) to the other half of the skillet.
- Break up the sausage into bits and brown while the pancetta renders; then combine and cook together another minute or so.
- Remove to a plate with a slotted spoon.
- Add the remaining olive oil to the skillet; then add in the beef and veal.
- Brown and crumble the meat into tiny bits; add in allspice, salt, and pepper.
- Add in the carrots, onions, and garlic; cook 5-6 minutes to soften the vegetables.
- Add the sausage and pancetta back to the skillet, draining away some of the fat.
- Deglaze the pan with the wine, scaping up all the good bits with a wooden spoon.
- Stir in the stock, then stir in the tomatoes.
- Check the seasoning to taste and adjust.
- Simmer over low heat until ready to serve, at least 10 minutes.
- Stir in half the parsley to finish.
- Drain the pasta and add back to the hot pot.
- Ladle a few spoonfuls of pasta over the sauce and add cheese to the pot.
- Stir to coat the pasta evenly; transfer to a large serving dish or individual bowls; top with remaining sauce and parsley; pass plenty of extra cheese at the table.
EASY SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS
No pasta's more iconic than spaghetti and meatballs, and now, it's a breeze to make -- the meatballs simmer right in the sauce.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Beef Recipes Ground Beef Recipes
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Set a large pot of salted water to boil. In a bowl, combine Parmesan, parsley, garlic, egg, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper. Add beef and breadcrumbs; mix gently. Form into 16 balls.
- In a 5-quart Dutch oven or heavy pot, heat oil over medium. Add meatballs, and cook, turning occasionally, until browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Add tomatoes; bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer; cover partially, and cook, stirring occasionally, until meatballs are cooked through, 10 to 12 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta until al dente. Drain, and return to pot; add meatballs and sauce, and toss gently. Serve with Parmesan.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 678 g, Fat 20 g, Fiber 7 g, Protein 42 g
SHRIMP PICCATA SPAGHETTI
The zesty piccata sauce of fresh lemon juice, briny capers and rich butter is the inspiration behind this weeknight seafood pasta. Plump, meaty shrimp pair perfectly with the pantry-staple sauce, which is simple yet fresh and bright. The chopped shrimp are gently cooked over low heat in a shallot and garlic-infused olive oil to keep them tender. Peas are an easy way to add a vegetable with pops of sweetness. (Thawed frozen corn would also work well.) The dish is finished with fresh parsley, but other herbs like basil, chives or dill would yield equally delicious results.
Provided by Kay Chun
Categories dinner, weekday, weeknight, pastas, seafood, main course
Time 25m
Yield 4 to 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high. Cook spaghetti according to package instructions until al dente. Reserve 1 cup of the pasta cooking water, then drain pasta.
- While the pasta is cooking, heat the oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium and melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in it. Add shallot and cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in garlic until fragrant, 30 seconds.
- Reduce heat to medium-low, add shrimp and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until shrimp just turn opaque, 4 to 5 minutes. If the shrimp is done before the pasta finishes, remove the skillet from heat.
- Return pasta and 1 cup of the reserved pasta water to the large pasta pot and heat over medium. Add the shrimp mixture, peas, capers, caper brine and the remaining 3 tablespoons butter, and season with salt and pepper. Stir vigorously until sauce thickens, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the lemon juice and parsley.
- Divide pasta in bowls and garnish with more parsley.
CHRISTMAS PASTA
Make and share this Christmas Pasta recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Smilyn
Categories Meat
Time 35m
Yield 4 large
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Heat a deep pot over medium high heat.
- Add oil, garlic, bay leaf, and pancetta bits and brown for 1 minute.
- Add meats and brown.
- Chop carrot, celery, and onions near stove and add to the pot as you work.
- Cook veggies with meat for 5 minutes and add wine.
- Cook for 1 minute; add stock and tomatoes to the pot.
- Stir in parsley, allspice (or cinnamon), and season sauce with salt and pepper.
- Bring sauce to boil, reduce heat to medium low and cook 10 to 15 minutes before serving.
- Toss pasta with a couple of ladles of sauce to coat, then top with extra.
- Top pasta with lots of grated romano cheese.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1341.6, Fat 37.5, SaturatedFat 11.6, Cholesterol 95.4, Sodium 990.9, Carbohydrate 178.2, Fiber 8.1, Sugar 8.3, Protein 56.9
CHRISTMAS PASTA
Steps:
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt it. Add the pasta and cook to al dente, with a bite to it.
- While the water and pasta work, heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon EVOO (1 turn of the pan). Add the pancetta to one half of the pan, the sausage, both hot and sweet, to the other. Break up the sausage into bits and brown while the pancetta renders, then combine and cook together another minute or so. Remove to a plate with a slotted spoon. Add the remaining tablespoon of EVOO, then the beef and veal. Brown and crumble the meat into tiny bits and season with allspice, salt, and pepper. Add the carrots, onions, and garlic and cook another 5 to 6 minutes to soften the vegetables, then add sausage and pancetta back into the pan, draining away some of the fat. Deglaze the pan with the wine, scraping up all the good bits with a wooden spoon. Stir in the stock, then the tomatoes. Check the seasoning. Simmer over low heat until ready to serve, at least 10 minutes. Stir in half the parsley to finish.
- Drain the pasta and add back to the hot pot. Ladle a few spoonfuls of the sauce over the pasta and add a couple of handfuls of cheese to the pot. Stir to coat the pasta evenly. Transfer to a large serving dish or individual bowls and top with the remaining sauce and parsley. Pass plenty of extra cheese at the table.
MYRT'S CHRISTMAS SPAGHETTI
Make and share this Myrt's Christmas Spaghetti recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Miss Annie
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 1h10m
Yield 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Sauté onions, bell pepper, and garlic in 5 tablespoons of olive oil.
- Add beef and cook until no longer pink.
- Add stewed tomatoes, olives, salt, pepper, and cheese.
- Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Then add Worcestershire sauce, mushroom pieces and tomato soup.
- Combine mixture with cooked spaghetti, refrigerate overnight.
- To serve, heat in oven at 350°F for approximately 45-60 minutes, or until heated through.
Tips:
- Use good quality ingredients: Fresh, flavorful ingredients will make all the difference in your spaghetti dish. Look for ripe tomatoes, firm vegetables, and high-quality cheese.
- Don't overcook the spaghetti: Spaghetti should be cooked al dente, or slightly firm to the bite. Overcooked spaghetti will be mushy and unpleasant.
- Sauce the spaghetti immediately: Once the spaghetti is cooked, toss it with the sauce immediately. This will help the sauce adhere to the spaghetti and prevent it from drying out.
- Garnish with fresh herbs: Fresh herbs, such as basil or parsley, add a pop of flavor and color to spaghetti dishes. They also help to brighten up the dish and make it more visually appealing.
- Serve with a side of crusty bread: Crusty bread is the perfect accompaniment to spaghetti. It can be used to soak up the sauce and mop up any stray bits of spaghetti.
Conclusion:
Spaghetti is a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. With a few simple tips, you can make a spaghetti dish that is sure to impress your family and friends. So next time you're looking for a quick and easy meal, reach for a box of spaghetti and get cooking!
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