Cheating Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

GRAMMA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE (CHEATER "FROM SCRATCH")

Steps:

• Slice sausages into 1/2" to 1" slices or remove casings and crumble. Brown meats with onions until browned. Drain fat.
• Add chopped veggies and all remaining ingredients.
• Bring just to a boil, then cover and reduce heat, allowing sauce to simmer 4-6 hours.

CHEATER'S THICK SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in large, deep pot until hot but not smoking.
• Lower heat to medium-low and add dried onion. Fry onion, stirring occasionally, until it softens and turns a light brown color, about 4-5 minutes. Watch it carefully, and monitor the heat. If the onion is jumping excitedly, your pan is too hot. You want the onion to lie on the bottom of the pan and twitch nervously.
• Add ground beef and brown it until there's no more pink. Don't stir the beef too much as it browns. You can get big chunky pieces of meat if you let it brown on one side, then flip it over and break it up just a little with a wooden spoon.
• Drain ground beef of excess fat. Don't be too thorough about this, because you need about a teaspoon of fat in which to fry the bell pepper.
• Over medium-low heat, fry the bell pepper for about a minute in the teaspoon of fat that you left in the pot.
• Add ground beef back to the pot.
• Dump in both jars of spaghetti sauce, both cans of tomato paste, and the water. Mix thoroughly.
• Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve over pasta.

CHEATING SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• brown the meat- I put some garlic salt in the meat for flavor.
• put Ragu in medium saucepan and heat on low.
• throw in all the ingredients above as well as the meat once it has browned.
• keep stirring and tasting.
• the Italian dressing is what makes it and is what i kept adding.
• serve when its just the way you like!
• sauce was on low heat for about 30 min while I experimented but I do not think it will take that long next time.

SECRET SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef and Italian sausage in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes; drain and discard grease.
• Chop carrots and onion in the food processor.
• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir carrots, onion, and garlic in the hot oil until onion is transparent, about 5 minutes. Stir ground beef-sausage mixture, crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, oregano, brown sugar, basil, black pepper, and cinnamon into onion mixture; simmer, stirring occasionally, until flavors have blended, about 30 minutes. Season with salt.