Filipino (Jollibee) Style Spaghetti Recipe

Filipino (Jollibee) sweet spaghetti with hot dog sausages and cheddar cheese.

Filipino (Jollibee) Style Spaghetti Recipe

This wonderful sweet Filipino spaghetti recipe comes completely out of left field and is very different to many European pasta dishes. Often known as Jollibee spaghetti thanks to a fast food chain, it contains minced meat (pork in this case), hot dog, sausages, cheese and it is sweetened with condensed milk. It sounds odd, but it is a wonderful sweet/savoury combination.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Anglo Filipino

Keyword filipino spaghetti, jollibee spaghetti, sweet filipino spaghetti

Prep Time 8

Cook Time 50

Total Time 58

Servings Servings

Calories 1148kcal

Author Brian Jones

Ingredients

300 g Minced Pork (Lean) 10oz
1 Medium Onion 150g
4 Garlic Cloves
1 Small Red Pepper
2 tablespoon Cooking Oil
1½ tablespoon Fish Sauce
1 tablespoon Cider Vinegar
1 tablespoon Tomato Puree
1 teaspoon Ground Ginger
¼ teaspoon White Pepper
200 g Tomato Passata
1 Beef Oxo Cube
175 ml Water ¾ Cup
6 Hotdog Sausages 150g
175 g Dried Spaghetti 6oz
4 tablespoon Sweetened Condensed Milk ¼ Cup
75 g Grated Cheddar Cheese ⅔-¾ Cup

Instructions

Cut the onion in half, peel it and then dice it as finely as you can.
Remove the seeds and stalk from the red pepper and dice it as finely as you can.
Heat a 30cm or 12" frying pan over a medium heat, and when it is hot, add the oil, followed by the onions and red pepper, then soften for 5 minutes. Stir occasionally.
Pele and finely chop the garlic cloves, and when the onions and peppers have been cooking for 5 minutes, add it to the pan and cook for 1 minute, stirring regulalry.
Turn the heat up to high and add the pork, and cook until it is well browned.
When the pork has browned, reduce the heat to medium and add the fish sauce, cider vinegar, tomato puree, ground ginger and white pepper, and give everything a stir for a minute or two.
Pour in the tomato passata, water and crumble in the oxo cube, then stir to combine.
Cut the hot dog sausages into 1-1.5cm (½") lengths, stir them through the sauce and simmer on a gentle "bubble" for 30 minutes.
When the sauce has 5 minutes left, boil the spaghetti in a 20cm or 8" saucepan of well-salted water. I use 1½ teaspoons of salt in a pan this size.
Once the pasta sauce has been cooking for 30 minutes, stir in the condensed milk and half of the grated cheddar cheese, stir to melt the cheese and simmer until the pasta is cooked.
Drain the pasta and stir it through the sauce.
Serve with the remaining cheddar sprinkled over the pasta.

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