Tips for Making Spaghetti

Series Summary

While the exact origins of spaghetti are still in some dispute, the great taste of this classic Italian dish is not. Spaghetti is properly a long, cylindrical, flour-based noodle, usually packaged and sold in a dried form. In practice, though, spaghetti is a dish consisting of the pasta, a tomato sauce, and often some type of beef, fowl, or seafood. The sauce is the key to any great spaghetti dinner. Grandmother’s famous recipe is a heavily guarded secret brought over from the old country and passed down from generation to generation.

In this free Italian food cooking video series, learn how to make a basic homemade spaghetti dinner recipe of your own. Our expert cook will walk you through the preparation, including a list of ingredients, spices and seasonings, how to chop, cut and slice the vegetables, how to brown the ground beef, cook the pasta, and what it should look like when you’re finished. Then try some variations on our dish and come up with your own homemade spaghetti recipe.

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Karl James owner of Creoesoul catering in Round Rock, Texas on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you a quick easy spaghetti recipe. Spaghetti a quick and easy spaghetti receipt anyway there is several ways we could do this you could either use a store brand or already prepare sauce in order to make your sauce or as we are going to do we are going to do it from scratch we are going to use tomato sauce and add some seasonings in order to create our sauce. Spaghetti well these days they have dry, they have you know fresh it is your chose whatever you want to use, we are going to use dry today. Like I said we are just going to make a quick and easy spaghetti dish we are going to do it on pot persay. We are not going to have it separate with sauce and spaghetti we are going to do it in a family style where you can just dig in and eat. It will go good with garlic bread and a nice toss salad anyway lets get started. "