I wrote this up for my cousins wife...this is my Grandmothers Italian pasta sauce recipe with meatball recipe included...Enjoy!
This will make A LOT of sauce so you will have to cut it in half unless you want a lot of leftovers...I freeze dinner size portions of meatballs/sausage and sauce in freezer bags and then just defrost them and pour over pasta!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Ing.
Hot or Mild Italian Sausages
2 lbs Ground Beef
FRESH Garlic
FRESH Basil Leaves
Dried Italian seasonings
onions
sugar
2 large cans crushed tomatoes
2 large cans tomato puree
1 large can of tomato paste and one small can
salt
Bread Crumbs
2 eggs
Poke holes in sausages with fork and boil in a saucepan for about 6 minutes, then lightly brown in another frying pan. Set aside.
smash 6 large cloves of garlic and heat up with olive oil. do not brown the garlic!!!
Add Tomato paste and cook for about 1 minute stirring constantly...careful not to burn it.
Add about 1/2 finely chopped onion, cook for about one more minute stirring constantly
Add tomato puree and crushed tomatoes and stir well.
you can also add diced tomato if you want the chunkier sauce.
add ROUGHLY a 3/4 can water for every can you used of tomato product. you will have to measure thickness and add as needed during simmering process. I usually dont after that but it can vary.
Add basil leaves and italian seasonings and salt to taste.
Add about a 2 teaspoons of sugar
Stir
Add sausages and raise heat to slight boil then reduce to low simmer stirring the whole time. cover the pot.
meatballs:
in large bowl combine
2 lbs ground beef
3 cloves of finely chopped garlic
Salt and pepper
Italian seasonings
two eggs
cover in bread crumbs and parmesan cheese.
Mix well and roll into balls and slightly brown in a frying pan.
put the meatballs in simmering sauce and cover. You might have to raise the heat now for a minute to get it back to a simmering state then drop it back to low.
Simmer for about 2-3 hours...I usually simmer for more! 8)
Enjoy!!!!
