Dinner

Turkey Bolognese with Wholewheat Spaghetti

Name: Turkey Bolognese with Wholewheat Spaghetti
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 150 g Turkey breast mince, 2% fat; 60 g Onion; 60 g Carrot; 1 stick, about 40 g Celery; 2 cloves, about 6 g Garlic; 250 g Passata; 1 tbsp (15 g) Tomato purée; A teaspoon Dried oregano; 160 g Cooked wholewheat pasta; 10 g Parmesan; 4 sprays, about 1 g Olive oil spray; To taste Salt

Turkey mince cooked slowly with a soffritto and passata, over wholewheat spaghetti. 52 g of protein for 557 kcal.

Calories: 557kcal
Protein: 52g
Fat: 9g
Carbs: 69g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work, then forty minutes at a simmer. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Gluten
Milk
Celery

Flags follow UK labelling rules and come from the ingredients as listed, not from any particular brand. Check the packet before cooking for somebody with an allergy.

Ingredients

Turkey breast mince, 2% fat150 g
Weighed raw. Thigh mince at 7% fat adds about 20 kcal per 100 g.
Onion60 g
Carrot60 g
Celery1 stick, about 40 g
Garlic2 cloves, about 6 g
Passata250 g
Tomato purée1 tbsp (15 g)
Dried oreganoA teaspoon
Cooked wholewheat pasta160 g
Cooked weight.
Parmesan10 g
Olive oil spray4 sprays, about 1 g
Counted at a quarter of a gram per spray, which is what the nozzle on most bottles delivers. Four sprays is 9 kcal.
SaltTo taste

Method

Chop the onion, carrot and celery as small as you have patience for and soften them in a sprayed pan over a medium heat for eight minutes, until the onion is translucent.
Turn the heat up, add the mince and the garlic and break the meat up with a spoon. Cook until it has lost its pink and started to catch on the base.
Stir in the purée and let it cook for a minute, then add the passata, oregano and a pinch of salt. Simmer uncovered for forty minutes, stirring now and then, until it is thick enough to hold a line when you drag the spoon across.
Toss the spaghetti through the sauce and finish with the parmesan.

Worth knowing

Turkey mince gives the sauce very little fat, so it depends on the soffritto and the long simmer for flavour. Twenty minutes is too short. The forty are worth it.
Weighed cooked, 160 g of wholewheat spaghetti is about 65 g dry. The wholewheat version is around 55 kcal lighter than the same weight of white pasta.

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