Last Minute Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

LAST-MINUTE LEMON SPAGHETTI AND SHRIMP

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, for 9 minutes. Add shrimp and cook for 3 minutes more. Drain.
• Whisk together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Add spaghetti, shrimp, and peas to the sauce. Sprinkle with basil and lemon zest and toss to coat.

30 MINUTE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet.
• Brown meat, onion, garlic, and green pepper.
• Add tomato sauce, paste, water and seasonings.
• Heat until bubbling, lower heat and simmer 30 minutes.
• Stir occasionally.
• Its ok to let simmer beyond 30 minutes until ready to serve.
• Left over portions freeze well, thaw and reheat as needed.

QUICK WEEKNIGHT HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, cook the ground meat, onion, garlic, and a pinch of salt and pepper, breaking the meat into small pieces as it cooks, until the meat is not longer pink.
• Drain any excess grease.
• Stir in the tomato paste, basil, oregano, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, for about a minute, until the mixture smells fragrant.
• Add the crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, brown sugar and soy sauce. Stir to combine.
• Bring the sauce to a simmer and cook for 5-10 minutes (or as long as you like/need).
• Serve over hot, cooked noodles.

30-MINUTE PASTA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet.
• Add the pepper, fennel and garlic and saute a couple of minutes just until the garlic is golden (not brown!).
• Add the tomatoes with their juice, the herbs and salt.
• Stir to combine, bring to a good simmer, turn the heat to low and let cook, uncovered, for about 20 minutes.
• Mix with cooked pasta and serve.
• Note 1- add as little or much garlic as you like- we like a lot.
• The same with the other ingredients- add the herbs you want in the amounts you want.
• You can saute 1/2 of an onion with the garlic if you like it.
• Note 2- You can substitute fresh herbs, but if you do double the measurement, and add them during the last few minutes of cooking.
• Note 3- add some raw, peeled shrimp to the sauce for the last five minutes for shrimp pasta.

5 MINUTE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Saute the garlic cloves in the olive oil.
• Mix in rest of ingredients and saute while crushing all together.
• Cook 5 minutes.