Recipe: Perfect Filipino Sweet Spaghetti

Filipino Sweet Spaghetti. It's not a party in the Philippines without sweet kiddie spag. 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.

Filipino-Style Spaghetti is one of the favorite dishes Filipinos serve during special occasions such as birthdays and fiestas. It has to be sweet, with lots of meat, and topped with grated cheese. Sauces, dips, dressings, and condiments from around the world. You can have Filipino Sweet Spaghetti using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Filipino Sweet Spaghetti

1. It's 1 pack of spaghetti noodles.
2. You need 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. You need 1 can of small tomato paste.
6. You need 3 of small very ripe tomatoes.
7. Prepare 2 of medium red bell pepper sliced.
8. It's 1 cup of mushrooms.
9. Prepare 2 of small onions chopped.
10. You need 1 head of garlic minced.
11. It's 1/4 cup of brown sugar.
12. It's 1 of large bottle of jufran banana sauce.
13. Prepare 2 tbsp of oyster sauce.
14. You need 3 tbsp of oil.
15. Prepare 1/4 tbsp of chili pepper.
16. Prepare 1/4 tbsp of paprika.
17. Prepare 1/8 stick of butter.
18. You need 1 cup of water (optional).
19. You need 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. I know it sounds like a nightmare to Italians but, you know, sweet pasta sauce, well… it's an acquired taste, I suppose. When you grow up with it. 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. This sweet-style spaghetti will surely make your day! Aside from Adobo, Filipino Spaghetti is yet another dish that is making a name out there. Unlike Italian spaghetti, Filipino spaghetti runs on the sweet side because of added sugar.