Mike’s personal spaghetti sauce recipe with Italian sausage.
Ingredients
- Ground beef and/or Italian sausage
- Onion, chopped
- Garlic, 3-4 cloves minced
- Tomatoes and/or tomato paste and/or tomato juice
- Salt, to taste
- Basil (fresh or dry)
- Small amount of olive oil
- Red wine or water
- Mushrooms, sliced (optional)
- Carrots, grated (optional)
- Sweet bell pepper, red or yellow (optional)
Steps
- Add a small amount of olive oil to a sauce pan.
- Fry the meat, onion, and garlic very well. This step is critical to the recipe.
- Later in frying process, add red wine or water as required to keep meat from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
- After the meat is cooked well, add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil.
- Lower the heat and allow to simmer for at least 3/4 to 1 hour.
Notes
- A lean pork roast is a good substitute for ground meat. However, the cooking time for the meat must be extended. The spaghetti and sauce become a side-dish to the roast pork.
- This recipe came from Maria Toto, who emigrated from Italy and maintained their Italian language and customs within their new Canadian home.