Perfect Spaghetti Sauce
From cmon68 11 years ago
- 6 hours to make
- Serves many
I know everyones got one, but understand my entire cooking life my sauce varied from ok to awful to "is this too expensive to toss?" I got serious for 2 yrs trying to make a thick sweet fresh sauce and voila here it is. Read more It is a bit different, I think Lets eat See less
Ingredients
- 3-4 TBS olive oil shopping list
- 1 medium onion chopped shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic choipped shopping list
- 3 shredded carrots shopping list
- 1 stalk celery finely slice shopping list
- 1 red pepper chopped shopping list
- 1 small can Hunts tomato paste shopping list
- 2 large cans Red Pack crushed tomatoes shopping list
- 2 large cans tomato puree shopping list
- 3 TBS basil shopping list
- 3 TBS oregano shopping list
- 3 TBS parsley shopping list
- 2 TSP garlic powder shopping list
- 1-2 TSP salt shopping list
- 1/2 TSP cocoa shopping list
- 8 ounces chicken broth YUP chciken broth shopping list
- 1/4 cup sugar OR 1/4 cup MINUS 1 TBS agave nectar OR 1/4 cup MINUS 3 TBS organic brown rice syrup(what I use) shopping list
- Optional: shopping list
- 1 cup good quality Cabernet or a dash of balsamic vinegar shopping list
- 1 lb ground sirloin shopping list
- 4 sweet sausages shopping list
- 8 ounces sliced mushroom shopping list
How to make it
- over medium-low heat warm olive oil
- sweat onion and move to one side of pot
- add garlic on other side and soften
- IF YOU BROWN OR BURN ANY OF THIS SWEAR IF YOU LIKE BUT THROW IT OUT AND START OVER trust me
- add celery, carrots and pepper and saute it all together now 4-5 minutes. You may need to add a bit more oil at this point
- Add can of tomato paste and stir all thoroughly (this is why I think my sauce is so thick, adding it here makes a HUGE difference, it blew me away.
- Add spices/sweetener and stir
- Add all tomato cans
- Add broth litlle by little stirring constantly
- cook for 3 hours with lid off stirring occassionally if not using meat cook for 5 with the last 2 lid on
- If adding meats and any all of optional ingridients:
- cook ground sirloin halfway
- add sausages and mushrooms
- finish cooking sirloin
- and drain well
- sausages will NOT be cooked through
- add meat/mushrooms to sauce
- add wine
- cook 2 hours with lid on
- don't forget the savor the way your house smells!
- Enjoy:))))
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