Summary
| Yield | |
|---|---|
| Source | Jeff Lowe |
| Prep time | 20 minutes |
| Cooking time | 2 1/2 hours |
| Total time | 2 hours, 50 minutes |
Ingredients
1 pound
lean ground beef 1 pound
mild italian Sausage, Sliced 1
Green Bell Pepper, Chopped 1
Red Bell Pepper, Chopped 2
onions, chopped 2
Carrots, diced 2
celery stalks 12
mushrooms, sliced/halved 15 ounce
tomato sauce 30 ounce
diced tomatoes 2 can
tomato paste 3
cubes beef bouillon 3
bay leaves 1 teaspoon
dried thyme 1 1⁄2 teaspoon
dried basil 1⁄2 teaspoon
crushed red pepper flakes 1 teaspoon
black pepper 1 tablespoon
white sugar 1 cup
beef brothInstructions
- Chop/slice/dice all ingredients
- Keep celery, carrots, and onions together
- Keep mushrooms, and peppers together
- Add ground beef and sliced sausage to large stock pot. Add some salt/pepper to season while browning if desired.
- Cook down to get all the fat out
- Strain meat in colander to drain fat
- Put the meat back in the stock pot
- Add celery, carrots, and onions
- Add beef broth and bouillon cubes, stir well
- Cover and let veggies cook down, stir now and then
- After about 10 minutes add the peppers, mushrooms, and all spices/seasonings
- Cover and let all of this cook/absorb flavours for 5 minutes
- Add all tomato ingredients, stir well
- Leave heat up until it starts to simmer then reduce to "low"
- Let Simmer on low for at least 2 hours.
Cook up your spag noodles, transfer to plates and add sauce on top. Serve it up.
Notes
- I have been making this sauce for 3 years and have played with the ingredients each time I made it to get the right balance.
- I found that you don't need to splurge on tomato sauces etc. I have started using walmart "best value" brand. It's about half the price of the name brands and it's just as good. The sugar cuts any tartness in the tomato.
- I use farm boy mild italian sausage now. I have tried many other types of farm boy sausages but if they're too hot it overpowers the other flavours.
- This sauce freezes very well. The recipe makes a boat load of sauce so unless you're feeding hordes of people you'll have leftovers.
- My family thinks this sauce is in the OMFG category. Hopefully you will agree.
- Don't use sauces/diced tomatoes with spices, etc added or you may overpower the sauce with a flavour.
- I normally taste test after an hour of simmering and see if it needs anything.
- Excellent rainy day recipe when you can't smoke or grill.
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