Kathy’s Meaty Spaghetti Sauce

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 55 mins
  • Servings: 4-6
  • About This Recipe

    “Meaty Spagetti Sauce”

    Ingredients

  • 1lbground beef
  • 1/2 lbmild sausage, coin sliced
  • 1/2 lbhot sausage, coin sliced
  • 4 (15ounce) cans tomato sauce
  • 1 (15ounce) cans whole tomatoes, cut up
  • 1smallonion, chopped
  • 1green pepper, chopped
  • oregano
  • 1bay leaf
  • 2clovesgarlic, diced
  • 2tablespoons olive oil or 2tablespoonsvegetable oil
  • Directions

  • In a frying pan add 2 tbs oil, add garlic, onion and green pepper.
  • Saute vegetables until tender.
  • Add ground beef and sausage to pan, cook until done.
  • Pour off excess fat, and add meat mixture to large pot.
  • Add tomato sauce and canned tomatoes to meat mixture in pot, keep adding sauce until it’s as thick as you like.
  • (I like more sauce and less meat, my husband likes’s more meat and less sauce).
  • Stir sauce until well mixed.
  • Add oregano and bay leaf.
  • Sprinkle oregano to cover entire top of sauce.
  • I add a lot of oregano.
  • Mix well, and heat to a boil stirring occasionally.
  • Add as much oregano as you like.
  • Add salt and pepper to taste.
  • Once it starts boiling turn the heat down to a simmer.
  • Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • In the meantime, cook pasta in a large pot of boiling water.
  • Drain pasta.
  • Pour sauce over pasta.
  • Reviews

  • “Very good spaghetti sauce! I used garlic sausage instead of the hot, plus I added mushrooms. In addition I used a yellow pepper and served it over top of Ramen Noodles minus the seasoning packet. I doubled the recipe so I could freeze the leftovers.”

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