Recipe: Appetizing Filipino Sweet Spaghetti

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Filipino Sweet Spaghetti. Jump To Recipe • Print Recipe. This recipe for every kid's favorite - Filipino Spaghetti - comes from the orphanage that I worked at for a year in Cebu. It's not a party in the Philippines without sweet kiddie spag.

Filipino Sweet Spaghetti Filipino spaghetti features a sweet, banana ketchup-based sauce with ground meat and sliced hot dogs. Due to the nature of my part-time job here at Pepper.ph and my own. Sauces, dips, dressings, and condiments from around the world. You can cook Filipino Sweet Spaghetti using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Filipino Sweet Spaghetti

  1. Prepare 1 pack of spaghetti noodles.
  2. It's 1 of 1b lean ground beef.
  3. It's 1 pack of red Filipino hot dog sliced.
  4. Prepare 1 can of large tomato sauce.
  5. Prepare 1 can of small tomato paste.
  6. Prepare 3 of small very ripe tomatoes.
  7. You need 2 of medium red bell pepper sliced.
  8. Prepare 1 cup of mushrooms.
  9. You need 2 of small onions chopped.
  10. Prepare 1 head of garlic minced.
  11. You need 1/4 cup of brown sugar.
  12. You need 1 of large bottle of jufran banana sauce.
  13. Prepare 2 tbsp of oyster sauce.
  14. Prepare 3 tbsp of oil.
  15. It's 1/4 tbsp of chili pepper.
  16. You need 1/4 tbsp of paprika.
  17. It's 1/8 stick of butter.
  18. It's 1 cup of water (optional).
  19. It's of Add salt as necessary for taste but not required.

The meat sauce was laden with sugar and hot dogs—definitely not the spaghetti of my youth. A celebration isn't a celebration until there's a big plate of sweet spaghetti in the middle of the table. A picnic isn't a picnic until you bring out that tupperware of. Filipino spaghetti is different from the typical spaghetti because it has fried sliced hot dogs.

Filipino Sweet Spaghetti instructions

  1. Put 5 cups of water in a pasta pot and boil one bag or box of spaghetti noodles adding 1/8 stick of butter so the noodles won't stick together. Make sure u don't over cook the noodles. Drain when cooked and set aside.
  2. Cut all tomatoes and red peppers, hot dogs, mushrooms and set aside.
  3. Take a large pot add oil and heat then sauté garlic and onions together.
  4. Add ground beef and sauté until meat is brown in color then add hot dogs.
  5. Add tomatoes, red pepper, and mushrooms and cooks for 5-8 minutes.
  6. Add tomato sauce, tomato paste and jufran sauce and stir and cook for 10 minutes.
  7. Add soy sauce, oyster sauce, brown sugar, paprika, and chili powder and stir and cook for 3 minutes.
  8. Add water if necessary and taste. Stir and cook for 15 more minutes then let it sit and simmer on low heat for 10 more minutes.
  9. Add sauce to noodles! Beat with some cheese! Enjoy!.

I haven't made this Filipino spaghetti for a long time. I used to make it frequently for my kids. Chances are, a Filipino who loves spaghetti is only thinking about a sweet, hotdog-laden concoction topped with chunks of unmelted cheddar cheese. I know it sounds like a nightmare to Italians but, you know, sweet pasta sauce, well… it's an acquired taste, I suppose. Aside from Adobo, Filipino Spaghetti is yet another dish that is making a name out there.