baba's easy homemade spaghetti sauce
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef or 1 pound ground beef, 1 pound spicy pork sausage for a little kick
- 1 green pepper chopped
- 1 yellow onion chopped
- 1 container sliced button mushrooms
- 1 28 ounce can crushed tomato
- 1 15 ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 6 ounce can tomato paste
- 1/2 cup dry red wine
- 4-6 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- Dash dried thyme
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Water as needed.
Instructions
- In a large stock pot or dutch oven over medium to medium high heat, brown meat, drain and set aside
- Add about a teaspoon of olive oil to the pot, and saute veggies until soft (about 5 minutes).
- Add garlic and other spices, stir and cook another minute.
- Add meat back into pot, stir.
- Add red wine, stir.
- Add crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato paste, stir.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Bring sauce to a boil and then reduce heat to low so the sauce is at a simmer.
- As the sauce simmers and reduces, gradually add a little water to give it more liquid to reduce.
- Simmer for one to three hours adding water as needed.
