My Mom liked to make this recipe because it makes a LOT of spaghetti sauce that you can use for pasta or lasagna or stuffed manicotti. I want to say that the original recipe came from the folks who make Gallo wine. But I know it was published in the California Wine Country Cookbook too. Mom made this sauce over and over again because she had to feed a family of six, and spaghetti was a good way to keep everyone full. There was always extra sauce, so she would ladle it into large zip baggies and freeze it for the next spaghetti meal.
Ingredients needed:
olive oil butter ground beef onion garlic salt/pepper/celery salt fresh thyme and fresh rosemary parsley dried mushrooms canned whole tomatoes tomato sauce water white wine white sugar
How to make Mom’s Spaghetti Sauce:
The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post. The recipe calls for a bunch of ingredients, but it’s a very easy recipe to make.
I wouldn’t make any substitutions with this recipe because it’s just so good the way it is. But you may be surprised about a couple of the ingredients, so let me explain!
There are dried mushrooms in the recipe. Don’t let that scare you, and don’t skip them because you say you don’t like mushrooms. The mushrooms are re-constituted in water, and then they are chopped. There aren’t a ton of them. And they add an earthy, delicious flavor to the sauce. The recipe also calls for using WHITE wine. You’re probably wondering why it doesn’t call for using RED wine! I don’t really have an answer for you except that this recipe was originally developed by a winery. The white wine works in Mom’s Spaghetti Sauce! But if you’re really worried about it, by all means use red wine instead of white.
This is a chunky sort of meat sauce. It simmers for three hours, so all of those wonderful flavors have plenty of time to meld together and make it awesome.
Spoon Mom’s spaghetti sauce over your favorite, hot cooked pasta. Add a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese, if you wish. Added garlic bread is great for soaking up the extra sauce. Enjoy!
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