Happy Cooking with LG SolarDom: Spaghetti meat sauce

Baking and cooking always make me happy, I love to try new recipes and new method for cooking too.

I know that we can cook many things in the microwave, esp. the one with water, because for some dishes cooking with microwave can dry it out. This time for my LG SolarDom menu of this month (I love using it ^^), I choose Spaghetti meat sauce. Making meat sauce in the microwave is very easy, you need only one bowl, put the ingredient into the bowl, heat in the microwave and you get meat sauce without having to wash pot or pan (and yes, you can serve it in that bowl too). At first, I'm afraid that there could be a problem about boiling pasta in the microwave, the time will be longer or not, and the pasta will come out OK?, After testing, I found out that boiling pasta won't take more time than on the stove, and the texture of the pasta is alright. For anyone who don't have large bowl for boiling pasta, you can use short pasta (penne or fussili) or break the Spaghetti in half. The amount of the pasta will depend on how hungry you are, hehe, for me 70g per person is enough for me.
You can make the meat sauce before time, and warm it, then boil the pasta, so it's very handy dish that you can make it again and again. 

 Spaghetti meat sauce 

Serve 2

1/2 .................................. Onion, finely chopped
1/2tsp .............................. Finely chopped garlic
250g ................................ Minced meat (I use half chicken and half pork)
1tsp .................................. Salt (use 1/2 tsp for the meat, 1/2 tsp for the sauce)
200g ................................ Tomato puree
2tsp .................................. Granulated sugar
1/4tsp ............................... Dried Italian seasoning
.......................................... Freshly grounded pepper
2tsp .................................. Olive oil
.......................................... Salt for boiling pasta (2tsp of salt per 1 litre of water)
.......................................... Water for boiling pasta
1/2tsp ................................ Olive oil for boiling pasta
140-160 g .......................... Dried pasta
........................................... Grated Parmesan cheese for serving

Tomato puree

 Put the finely chopped onion into a bowl with 1 tsp of olive oil, mix to combine.

 Cover and put in the microwave. Select Microwave function, 600w and set timer to 2 minutes.

  Remove the bowl from the microwave add the minced meat, finely chopped garlic,  1/2tsp of salt, 1tsp of olive oil and a pinch of pepper into the bowl, mix to combine.

 Cover and put in the microwave. Select Microwave function, 360w and set timer to 1.30 minutes.

 Remove the bowl from the microwave, use 2 forks to separate the meat.
 Cover and put in the microwave. Select Microwave function, 360w and set timer to 1 minutes.Remove the bowl from the microwave, use 2 forks to separate the meat.

  Remove the bowl from the microwave, pour the tomato puree into the bowl with 2 tsp of sugar, 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/4 tsp of Italian seasoning stir to combine.

 Cover and put in the microwave. Select Microwave function, 600w and set timer to 4 minutes.
 Remove the bowl from the microwave.

 Boil the water you will need about 1 minute per 100ml of water. If using 1000ml of water you will need 10 minutes.
Select Microwave function, 900 w and set timer to 10 minutes.

 Remove the bowl from the microwave, add salt into the water and pour 1/2 tsp of olive oil into the water.
Add the Spaghetti (or any kinds of pasta that you choose), using fork to separate the Spaghetti.  

 Select Microwave function,600 w and set timer to suit your pasta (read from the label), mine is 10 minutes. 

 Remove the bowl from the microwave, test the pasta, if it's too dry put in the microwave and heat for 1 - 1.30 minutes more. 

To serve:
Place the Spaghetti on the plate spoon the meat sauce on top, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese, season with freshly grounded black pepper and salt. 

Happy Cooking with LG SolarDom: Spaghetti meat sauce