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Spaghetti With Humble Red Bean Sauce

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Introduction

The humblest sauce for pasta that you can ever make!

Ingredients

Serves: 4

For the Pasta

  • 1 packet spaghetti
  • boiling water (fill a pan)
  • 3 teaspoons oil
  • salt

For the Sauce

  • ½ chopped onion
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 3 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1 packet red beans
  • ½ can tinned tomatoes (or 1 chopped fresh tomato will do)
  • 1 dash olive oil (or corn or vegetable oil)
  • 1 dash champignons (preferably, or another mushroom of your choice)
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 pinch of pepper

Method

Spaghetti With Humble Red Bean Sauce is a community recipe submitted by missus and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

For pasta

  • Put dried spaghetti, oil, and salt to boiling water. Bring pasta to boil until al dente. (approximately 8-minutes). Drain and let it simmer.
  • For sauce

  • Add fresh red beans to a new boiling water. Boil for 15-20 mins or until softened. Stir and roughly mash the red beans.
  • Add olive oil to pan, put in chopped onion, garlic, diced tomato, and diced mushroom. Stir until softened
  • Put in mashed red beans and stir.
  • Add tomato paste and chicken broth. Stir for 5 minutes. Add salt & pepper.
  • Mix the sauce with spaghetti.
  • Serve and knock yourselves out! Enjoy.. =)
  • Tell us what you think

    What 2 Others have said

    • possible to replace chicken broth with something else?

      Posted by hjiawenn on 17th August 2015
    • What do you mean by a packet of beans? Like a can?

      Posted by baker411 on 27th October 2014
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