{"id":265,"date":"2018-07-27T09:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T13:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2018-08-10T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:09:52","slug":"spaghetti-with-turkey-meat-sauce-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/spaghetti-with-turkey-meat-sauce-night\/","title":{"rendered":"SPAGHETTI WITH TURKEY MEAT SAUCE NIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally Posted April 10, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I cook spaghetti at least once a month. One pot can last up to three days with my family size of 2 \u00bd.\u00a0 Both my husband and my daughter love it.\u00a0 I prepare my meat sauce with ground turkey.\u00a0 Please see recipe below.\u00a0 Since I work during the week, this saves me time with dinner.\u00a0 I make the sauce one night.\u00a0 When I get home all I have to do is boil the spaghetti.\u00a0 I also boil some frozen vegetables as well.\u00a0\u00a0 We need our vegetables in our diet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Olive Oil<\/li>\n<li>Pack of Ground Turkey- 1- 1.5 lbs<\/li>\n<li>Onion<\/li>\n<li>Green bell pepper<\/li>\n<li>Red bell pepper<\/li>\n<li>Garlic- one clove<\/li>\n<li>Can diced tomatoes (Hunt\u2019s)<\/li>\n<li>Can of tomato paste (small one)<\/li>\n<li>Can of tomato sauce (Hunt\u2019s)<\/li>\n<li>A jar of organic tomato sauce (Bertolli)<\/li>\n<li>Seasoning- salt, pepper, garlic power, Italian seasoning<\/li>\n<li>Soy sauce (1\/2 teaspoon)<\/li>\n<li>sugar (2 tablespoons)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Directions<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Heat your pot up on medium heat with about a tablespoon of olive oil.<\/li>\n<li>I chopped my vegetables (onion, bell peppers, and garlic) up first. I put the garlic in a separate bowl.<\/li>\n<li>After chopping up the vegetables, I saut\u00e9 the onions and bell peppers in the pot for about 3-4 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Then add the garlic. Cook for about 1-2 minutes more.<\/li>\n<li>Add the ground turkey. Add soy sauce (1\/2 teaspoon) for the color.<\/li>\n<li>Add seasonings, about a teaspoon each. Cook and stir the ground turkey for about 5-6 minutes until meat is fully cooked. There should not be any pink left.<\/li>\n<li>Add can tomatoes, can tomato sauce, jar of tomato sauce, and \u00bd can of the tomato paste.<\/li>\n<li>Stir and let cook down for about 5 minutes. Once the sauce starts boiling, turn the stove down to low.<\/li>\n<li>Add the sugar (2 tablespoons) and stir. If you like you can add more Italian seasoning (about 1 teaspoon).<\/li>\n<li>Let the sauce cook on low for about 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>After the 20 minutes, taste and see if you should add more seasoning. If not, the sauce is ready to serve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note: If you are using ground beef. You will need to cook the meat in a separate pan.\u00a0\u00a0 Then drain the oil.\u00a0 Add the meat to the pot with the cooked vegetables.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pot-of-Sauce-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick and simple recipe to feed your family for a couple of nights. For the pasta, I usually follow the directions on the box on how to cook it.\u00a0 I have a video on this blog to show how to cook frozen vegetables. \u00a0Feel free to contact me if you need more information on this recipe.\u00a0 I am happy to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally Posted April 10, 2017 &nbsp; I cook spaghetti at least once a month. One pot can last up to three days with my family size of 2 \u00bd.\u00a0 Both my husband and my daughter love it.\u00a0 I prepare my meat sauce with ground turkey.\u00a0 Please see recipe below.\u00a0 Since I work during the week,<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/spaghetti-with-turkey-meat-sauce-night\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn","tag-recipe","tag-spaghetti-sauce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telljannel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}