Make Meghan Markle's spaghetti at home
Today, Meghan Markle's very first cookbook hits the market. ‘Together’ was the idea of the duchess, and she created it with the victims of the severe fire at Grenfell Tower.
The women came together in the Hubb Community Kitchen to cook, talk, and share. Meghan often joined them, but the kitchen was only open twice a week. That could be different, Meghan thought, and that's why she came up with the plan to compile the recipes from the kitchen. She wrote the foreword herself. In the book, you will find 50 recipes from Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East. I'm already getting excited to put the pans on the fire. The proceeds? They go straight back to the Hubb Community Kitchen.
To celebrate the arrival of the cookbook, we dove into the archives for Meghan's spaghetti recipe. Want to make it? Are you a next-level kitchen princess and prefer to make your own pasta? Then Meghan will show you how. how to do it.
What do you need?
Spaghetti. Of course. What you need for the number of people:
- 1/2 chopped onion
- A few cloves of garlic
- Fresh basil
- Fresh rosemary
- Parmesan cheese
- Rum
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- San Marzano tomatoes with that delicious juice
- A few slices of carrot
- Pancetta. Prefer vegetarian? Then leave it out.
How do you make it?
Pour yourself a glass of wine and take a sip. No joke, that's really Meghan's advice. Because spaghetti can wait for sauce, but sauce can't wait for spaghetti.
- Heat olive oil in a pan over medium heat and add all the ingredients, letting them simmer gently until soft.
- Let it reduce for 25 minutes with a generous splash of red wine.
- Finish the sauce with some extra basil and a splash of the pasta cooking water; this helps bind the sauce.
- Add some grated parmesan, as much as you like.
- Cook the pasta until it's al dente.
- Gently stir the sauce (after draining the spaghetti, of course) through the pasta, and you're done.
