Easy Meat Sauce
This Easy Meat Sauce recipe is perfect for topping your favorite pasta!
Easy Meat Sauce
This meat sauce includes both ground beef and Italian sausage, making it a hearty choice to include with your pasta dish. The seasoned tomato sauce is delicious too! It’s a nice step-up from classic marinara sauce .
This recipe comes from Salt and Lavender: Everyday Essentials – 100 Quick and Easy Recipes for Busy People by Natasha Bull. Natasha is a good friend of mine, and she’s the founder of the SaltandLavender.com website. She’s an expert in creating tried and true recipes that you’ll want to make again and again, so it’s no wonder that she has a huge following. This is a cookbook that you will want to have sitting on your cookbook shelf. I think you’ll find that you’ll be reaching for it often for dinner inspiration!
Here are a few recipes from the book that I’d like to make:
Creamy Garlic Salmon Pasta
Million Dollar Spaghetti
Tomato Spinach White Wine Chicken
Quick Thai Green Curry Soup
Turkey Sweet Potato Chili
Lemon Chicken Gnocchi
Simple Parmesan Arugula Salad
Sun-Dried Tomato Basil White Bean Dip
🛒 Ingredients Needed:
extra virgin olive oil
onion
ground beef
Italian sausage
garlic
canned crushed tomatoes
tomato paste
beef broth
Italian seasoning
dried oregano
granulated white sugar
crushed red pepper flakes
salt and pepper
✏️ How to Make Easy Meat Sauce:
*The complete, printable recipe is in the recipe card at the end of this post.
In a large pot, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion and saute for 4 minutes. Add in the ground beef and sausage; breaking it up with your spoon as it cooks, until browned (8 to 10 minutes). Spoon out some of the excess fat; discard. Leave a few tablespoons in for flavor.
Stir in the garlic. Then stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste, broth, seasonings, sugar and red pepper flakes (if using). When the mixture begins to bubble, reduce the heat, cover the pot loosely with a lid. Simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour. The longer you cook it, the more flavorful it becomes. Stir occasionally, and adjust heat as needed to maintain a low simmer. Thin with additional beef broth, if needed.
Add salt and pepper, to taste. Serve over pasta.
➡️ Tips and Substitutions:
Use ground sausage meat. Or buy sausages and take the meat out of the casings. I prefer to use sweet Italian sausage.
Sugar is added to take the acidic edge off of the canned tomatoes, and it makes them taste sweeter. You can omit the sugar, but it’s not recommended. Add more, if you’d like!
Add in a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar for more flavor! Add a splash of heavy cream to mellow out the sauce.
✔️ Make Ahead Tips:
This sauce may be made ahead and refrigerated. Serve within 3 to 4 days. It may also be frozen in a sealed container for up to 6 months.
❤️ What I Love About This Recipe
I love that you can use any kind of meat you want. Sometimes, I just use ground turkey.
It’s lovely to have homemade meat sauce on hand for last-minute dinners. I always keep it in my freezer!
It’s delicious!
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Easy Meat Sauce
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This sauce is a fabulous combination of ground beef and Italian sausage cooked in a tasty seasoned tomato sauce.
Course Sauces Cuisine Italian Keyword meat sauce
Prep Time 10 minutes minutes Cook Time 45 minutes minutes Total Time 55 minutes minutes
Servings 10 servings
Calories 285 kcal
Author RecipeGirl.com (shared from The Salt and Lavender cookbook)
Ingredients 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped 1 pound ground beef 1 pound Italian sausage 6 medium garlic cloves, minced One 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes One 6-ounce can tomato paste 1 cup beef broth 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 tablespoon granulated white sugar 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes (optional) salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions In a large pot, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion and saute for 4 minutes. Add in the ground beef and sausage; breaking it up with your spoon as it cooks, until browned (8 to 10 minutes). Spoon out some of the excess fat; discard. Leave a few tablespoons in for flavor. Stir in the garlic. Then stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste, broth, seasonings, sugar and red pepper flakes (if using). When the mixture begins to bubble, reduce the heat, cover the pot loosely with a lid. Simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour. The longer you cook it, the more flavorful it becomes. Stir occasionally, and adjust heat as needed to maintain a low simmer. Thin with additional beef broth, if needed. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Serve over pasta.
Nutrition Serving: 1 serving | Calories: 285 kcal | Carbohydrates: 12 g | Protein: 19 g | Fat: 18 g | Saturated Fat: 6 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9 g | Trans Fat: 0.2 g | Cholesterol: 63 mg | Sodium: 807 mg | Potassium: 718 mg | Fiber: 3 g | Sugar: 7 g | Vitamin A: 440 IU | Vitamin C: 13 mg | Calcium: 59 mg | Iron: 3 mg The post Easy Meat Sauce appeared first on Recipe Girl® .
