Quick Meat Sauce Recipes

BASIC MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic, salt, and pepper. Cook until softened, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add beef and cook, breaking up with a spoon until no longer pink, 4 to 5 minutes. Add tomato paste and cook 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add tomatoes and juice, breaking up tomatoes. Simmer over medium heat until thickened and saucy, 45 to 60 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

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.

QUICK MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large deep saute pan, heat the oil and add the carrots, celery and onion. Cook, stirring often, until the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes. Add the veal, pork, Aleppo pepper, garlic and bay leaf and season lightly with salt and pepper. Cook, breaking the chunks of meat with a spatula, until the meat is no longer pink, about 10 minutes.
• Add the wine, tomatoes and tomato paste and cook until most of the liquid has evaporated, about 20 minutes. Discard the bay leaf. Stir in the demi-glace, cream and sage and cook for 3 more minutes. Remove from the heat, season with salt and pepper and stir in the parsley. Serve over pasta with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.

QUICK AND SIMPLE MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat large, deep sided pan on medium to medium high heat.
• Coat bottom of pan with a couple tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil.
• Heat a large pot of water on high until boiling for the pasta.
• Once the oil starts to ripple but before it starts smoking, dump in the onions, mushrooms and red pepper flakes. Stir the pan occasionally.
• Once the onions start to soften and the mushrooms brown (about 5-7 minutes), season with salt and stir the pan.
• Now add the bell pepper and zucchini and stir the pan occasionally.
• Once the pepper and zucchini begin to soften, add in the garlic and season again with salt continuing to stir the pan occasionally.
• At this point, the pot of water should be boiling. Season the water liberally with salt and add the pasta. Cook to al dente.
• Once the garlic is very fragrant, stir in the ground beef and break it up into little pieces.
• Continue to cook until meat is browned all the way through.
• Stir in the marinara sauce. It will be pretty thick, so add in about 1/2 cup of pasta water to thin.
• Bring sauce to a boil, then cover, reduce heat and let simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Drain the pasta and put in bowls.
• Once the sauce is done, pour over the pasta and then add some parmigiano cheese if you'd like!

QUICK MEAT SAUCE FROM A JAR

Steps:

• In large skillet cook meat until browned; drain.
• Add onion; cook until tender.
• Stir in spaghetti sauce, parsley, basil or oregano, salt and pepper; simmer 5 to 10 minutes.

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.

QUICK MEAT SAUCE AND SHELLS

Steps:

• Coat a large nonstick skillet with nonstick cooking spray; heat over medium-high heat and add crumbled ground beef, peppers, onion and garlic.
• Cook for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in tomatoes, sugar, salt and black pepper.
• Cover and simmer on medium-low for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• While sauce is simmering, cook pasta following package directions.
• Drain.
• Spoon sauce over pasta.
• Top with shredded cheese and serve.