My Great Meat Sauce Recipes

MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large pot over medium-high heat, brown the ground beef and sausage until totally browned. Remove the meat from the pot with a slotted spoon and put it into a bowl. Set aside.
• Discard any grease in the pot, but do not clean the pot. Drizzle in the olive oil. When it is heated, throw in the onions and bell peppers. Stir it around for 1 1/2 minutes, and then add the garlic. Stir and cook for an additional minute.
• Pour in the wine and allow it to bubble up and reduce for about 1 1/2 minutes. Add the crushed tomatoes, marinara sauce and tomato paste. Stir to combine, and then add the sugar, salt, oregano, thyme, crushed red pepper if using and bay leaves. Stir, and then add the cooked ground beef and sausage and stir to combine. Place the lid on the pot and allow to simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Add a little water or some low-sodium broth if it needs more liquid.
• After an hour, add the minced parsley and the Parmesan rind if using (or grated Parmesan if you prefer--or both!). Stir to combine, and then put the lid back on and allow it to simmer for another 30 minutes or so. Discard the bay leaves before serving.
• Serve a big bowl of oiled noodles and the meat sauce so guests can serve themselves. Top each serving with minced parsley and grated Parmesan (or Parmesan shavings) and serve with a big piece of garlic-cheese bread.

MY GREAT SPAGHETTI MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• In a 10 quart stock pot, combine 5 cups water with a 1/2 tablespoon salt. Place tomatoes in pot and bring to a boil for 10 minutes.
• While tomatoes are cooking, in a cast iron skillet (or vessel of choice) combine ground beef and pork. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until browned through. Keep grease in pan while draining meat. Set meat off to the side until later.
• Cook smoked sausage in pan from ground meat to enhance flavor of meat. Place to the side.
• Drain water off tomatoes and run under cold water for 2 minutes. Gently peel the skin off tomatoes and place in stock pot with 1 tablespoon EVOO and condensed milk. Place on simmer.
• Season tomatoes with remaining salt, italian spices, mustard and combine with cooked meat and stir until tomatoes and meat become uniform. Tomatoes will have a rough appearance at first.
• Dice peppers and onion into 1/4 inch cubes and combine with cayenne pepper. Saute in meat pan with remaining EVOO untill sweating has occurred. Add the mushrooms and cook until sweating is complete on peppers.
• Combine with sauce and add lime/lemon juice.
• Cook for 2 hours while stirring and seasoning to taste.

EASY MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat; saute onion in hot oil until softened, about 5 minutes. Season onion with Italian seasoning; continue to saute until the herbs are fragrant, about 3 minutes more.
• Break beef into small pieces and add to the skillet; cook and stir until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Stir tomato sauce and diced tomatoes into the beef mixture; season with salt, place a lid on the skillet, reduce heat to low, and cook at a simmer for 1 hour.
• Splash wine over the mixture, stir, and simmer until thickened, about 20 minutes.

MY GREAT MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients. Pour over any type of meat (preferably pre-cooked chicken. ribs, hamburger patties or steak) Be sure to drain all fat from meat before adding sauce. Bake in oven 350F for 30 mins.