Description
Spaghetti Garlic Bread Bowls – Hearty pasta in crusty garlic bread bowls topped with melted cheese. A fun and filling twist on classic spaghetti dinner.
Ingredients
Main Sauce Ingredients:
- Olive oil for cooking.
- 1 medium white onion, finely diced.
- 2 garlic cloves, finely diced.
- 500g ground beef (12% fat).
- 1 tablespoon tomato puree.
- 80ml red wine.
- 500g tomato passata.
- 240ml beef stock.
- ½ tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.
- ½ bunch fresh basil, chopped.
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano.
- ½ teaspoon sugar.
- 20g freshly grated parmesan.
Spaghetti and Bread Bowls:
- 200g spaghetti.
- 6 crusty white rolls.
- 100g butter, melted.
- 30g parmesan for butter.
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, finely chopped.
- 3 garlic cloves, made into paste.
- 200g mozzarella, shredded.
Instructions
- Cook onion until golden, add garlic. Add beef and brown. Mix in tomato puree. Saute the onions until golden, then add garlic. Brown the ground beef and stir in the tomato puree.
- Add wine, reduce. Add passata, stock, herbs and seasonings. Simmer 25 minutes until thick. Stir in parmesan. Pour in the wine, reduce, then add passata, stock, herbs, and seasonings. Simmer until thick, then stir in parmesan.
- Cut tops off rolls, hollow out centers. Mix melted butter with garlic, parsley, parmesan. Brush inside and outside of rolls. Prepare the bread bowls by hollowing them out and brushing them with the butter mixture.
- Boil spaghetti until al dente. Transfer directly to sauce and toss. Cook spaghetti until al dente, then mix directly into the sauce.
- Fill rolls with pasta mixture, ensuring sauce on top. Top with mozzarella. Fill the bread bowls with the pasta mixture, top with sauce and mozzarella.
- Cook at 350°F for 8-10 minutes until bread is crisp and cheese melts. Optional: broil to brown cheese. Bake the bread bowls until crisp and cheese is melted. Broil for a browned cheese topping if desired.
Notes
- Use firm crusty rolls that sound hollow when tapped.
- Save hollowed bread for breadcrumbs.
- Sauce can be made ahead.
- Prep Time: 25 Minutes
- Cook Time: 50 Minutes
- Category: Main Dishes
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Italian-Fusion
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Bread Bowl
- Calories: 646
- Sugar: 3.8g
- Sodium: 870mg
- Fat: 34.14g
- Saturated Fat: 17.63g
- Unsaturated Fat: 12.82g
- Trans Fat: 0.98g
- Carbohydrates: 46.9g
- Fiber: 3.1g
- Protein: 35.31g
- Cholesterol: 110.5mg
