How many calories in spaghetti bolognese
A plate of spaghetti bolognese has 313 kcal, with 15 g of protein.
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To burn it off
Spag bol is pasta, mince and tomato sauce, and most of the calories sit in the pasta and the mince. The 48 g of carbs is nearly all spaghetti.
The mince brings the 15 g of protein and a good part of the fat. Leaner mince makes a real difference, the sauce barely notices.
313 kcal is a proper dinner. Add garlic bread and a heap of parmesan and it climbs quickly.
Tips
- 1Use 5% fat mince, or swap half of it for lentils.
- 2Grate the parmesan yourself, a little goes a long way.
- 3Bulk the sauce with carrots, onions and mushrooms and go a bit lighter on the pasta.
Where it comes from
Meat ragù for pasta comes from the area around Bologna. One of the earliest recipes was written in Imola at the end of the 18th century by Alberto Alvisi, cook to a cardinal who later became Pope Pius VII, and Pellegrino Artusi printed a Bolognese ragù in 1891. In Bologna it goes with tagliatelle, spaghetti bolognese grew up abroad among Italian emigrants.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Wikipedia, Bolognese sauce
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Questions
How many calories in homemade spaghetti bolognese?
About 313 kcal for a normal plate. It depends most on how much pasta you serve and how fatty the mince is.
Is bolognese sauce high in calories?
The sauce alone isn't bad. The pasta under it is where most of the calories are.
How much protein is in spag bol?
About 15 g a plate, mostly from the mince.
Should I weigh spaghetti dry or cooked?
Either, as long as you use the matching number. Dry spaghetti is about 355 kcal per 100 g and cooked about 160, because it soaks up water.
Does draining the fat from the mince lower the calories?
A little. Pouring off the fat after browning takes some of it away, though with lean mince there's hardly any to drain.
