Grammas Spaghetti Sauce Cheater From Scratch Recipes

GREAT GRANDMA'S HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Brown meat and Italian sausage (break it up as you stir it. You may want to heat up a little olive oil (about 2 minutes) before adding the meat...)
• Add chopped onions to the meat mixture and continue cooking. Stir occasionally until onions are softened.
• Next, add your diced tomatoes, tomato paste, and tomato sauce.
• Next, mix in the spices, sugar, and garlic.
• Once your sauce is cooking (bring to a boil), add your wine and water.
• Simmer on low (stir often) for an hour.
• Optional: Let it simmer for an additional 3-4 hours, just to let the flavors combine even more.

GRANDMA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Cook and stir ground beef and onion in a large pot until beef is no longer pink, about 10 minutes. Drain excess grease.
• Pour tomato sauce and tomato paste into the pot; season with pepper. Stir in tomato puree and ketchup. Add brown sugar, mustard, celery salt, onion salt, and garlic salt, stirring after each addition.
• Simmer sauce over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until flavors combine, 30 to 45 minutes. Sprinkle in Parmesan cheese during the last 5 minutes of cooking.

GRANDMA MAGGIO'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat, and cook and stir the onion and garlic until translucent but not browned, 6 to 7 minutes. Stir in the mushrooms and basil, and cook and stir until the basil is wilted and the mushrooms are cooked through and have given up their juices, about 10 minutes.
• Pour in the whole peeled tomatoes, and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring and chopping the tomatoes into pieces with a spoon. Pour in the tomato sauce and stir, crushing any large pieces of tomato left, and bring to a simmer. Let the sauce simmer until slightly thickened and bubbling, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
• Stir the tomato paste into the sauce, and fill the empty tomato paste can with Merlot wine, stirring to dissolve any remaining tomato paste in the can. Pour the Merlot wine into the sauce, and stir well to combine. Bring the sauce back to a simmer, and stir in the salt, pepper, dried oregano, and sugar. Let the sauce simmer until the seasonings are blended and the sauce is heated through, about 3 more minutes.

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.

GRANDMA'S HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE RECIPE

Steps:

• Blend tomatoes, half of onions, celery, garlic, and green pepper in blender to desired level of chunkiness. We like our sauce fairly smooth, so we blend ours for a good long while on the chop setting.
• Transfer blended vegetables to a very large pot (at least 8 quarts). Add spices, tomato paste, mushrooms, and remaining onions. Cook for 3 hours, or until desired consistency is reached.
• Remove bay leaves.
• Preserve as desired. Makes 2 to 3 quarts.

SPAGHETTI SAUCE FROM SCRATCH

Steps:

• Finely chop onions and green peppers and simmer in vegetable oil.
• Add pepper.
• In a large pot, place the whole tomatoes, garlic, salt, sugar, spices and onion/pepper mix.
• Bring to a good rolling boil.
• Add paste last, one can at a time.
• Process in canning jars or freeze!

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.