Recipe: Appetizing Spaghetti with "Meat" Sauce

Spaghetti with "Meat" Sauce. In a large skillet, cook beef and sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in the tomatoes, green pepper, onion, carrots, water, tomato sauce, tomato paste, brown sugar, Italian seasoning, garlic, salt and pepper. Rich and meaty spaghetti sauce is surprisingly easy to make, and ready in just over an hour.

Also add salt and pepper to the meat (to taste) while sauteing with the onions and garlic and peppers before adding to the sauce An authentic Italian recipe for a savory spaghetti sauce made with ground beef, onion, celery, fresh mushrooms, dried basil, and dried mint. In all seriousness, this Best Ever Spaghetti and Meat Sauce is the perfect Italian-inspired family meal idea - the sauce is rich and meaty and SO flavourful, and it goes great over your favourite pasta cooked in salted water. A-spaghetti without a-cheese is like a-kiss without a-squeeze, and spaghetti without good sauce is like…well, limp, hopeless noodles. You can have Spaghetti with "Meat" Sauce using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Spaghetti with "Meat" Sauce

1. It's of Onion, chopped.
2. It's of Carrots, sliced thin.
3. It's of Celery, sliced.
4. It's of Italian Seasoning.
5. It's of Dried Lentils.
6. Prepare of can Crushed Tomatoes.
7. Prepare of Italian Parsley, chopped.
8. Prepare of Fresh Basil Leaves or tsp dried.
9. You need of Spaghetti Noodles.
10. It's of Cheddar or Colby Jack Cheese, shredded.

This spaghetti sauce…is good sauce, my friends. It's rich, meaty, a cinch to make, and it can be frozen and used on spaghetti, in lasagna, on top of garlic bread, or over the top of ricotta-stuffed pasta. Authentic Italian Style Spaghetti Sauce simmered low and slow and packed with flavor! In my opinion I think there are a few key steps in creating that authentic, thick, richly flavored, meaty sauce.

Spaghetti with "Meat" Sauce instructions

1. Note: You can use any vegetables you have. You can also change the cheese to Parmesan if desired..
2. Add carrots, celery and onion to pan with 2 tbsp water and saute till onions are cooked and slightly brown. Add water tbsp at a time to prevent burning..
3. Add tbsp water and italian seasoning with salt and pepper and stir..
4. Add Lentils and water enough to cover lentils. Bring to boil and simmer for 35 minutes. Keep an eye on it and add water as needed. Water should be gone at end of 35 minutes..
5. Put water in a pot with shake of salt and heat for spaghetti noodles. Add spaghetti when it boils..
6. Scoop half lentils into blender and blend for a minute. Pour back into pan and scoop other half into blender and blend that for a minute. Pour back into pan. Some lentils will be whole. That's ok..
7. Add crushed tomatoes, basil and parsley. Stir and simmer 15 minutes..
8. If desired, add spaghetti to "meat" sauce and toss OR put spaghetti on plate and scoop sauce on top..
9. Plate spaghetti, sprinkle with cheese and serve..
10. NOTE: If you want a more saucy "meat" sauce you can add another can of crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce. If you want the sauce to be a little more sweet and tomatoey add in and a few squirts of ketchup.

I've learned a few things trying to imitate that amazingly delicious pasta sauce that I get at a few of my favorite Italian restaurants. Stir in pasta sauce and seasoned salt; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, Parmesan cheese and butter. Drain spaghetti; add to egg mixture and toss to coat. Top with half of the cottage cheese, meat sauce and mozzarella cheese.