Spaghetti Sauce
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Recipe type: Spaghetti Sauce
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Ingredients
  • 1 pound ground beef or turkey
  • 1 pound mild ground Italian sausage
  • garlic powder to taste
  • onion powder to taste
  • 1 large can crushed tomatoes
  • 2 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
  • 2 small cans tomato paste
  • 2 cans water (tomato paste cans)
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon thyme
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 heaping tablespoon basil
  • 1 heaping tablespoon oregano
  • 1 zucchini shredded
  • 1 yellow squash shredded
  • 1-2 carrots shredded
  • 1 red pepper diced small
Instructions
  1. Brown your ground beef (or turkey) and sausage in a large pot over about medium heat. Season to taste with garlic and onion powder.
  2. When the meat is browned add in your crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and water. Give it all a stir.
  3. Add in your sugar, thyme, salt, pepper, basil, and oregano and stir.
  4. Shred up your zucchini, yellow squash, and carrots with the fine shredder on your cheese grater.
  5. Chop up your red pepper. Add all the veggies to the sauce and give it a stir.
  6. Bring to a boil and then cover and simmer on low for 4-5 hours stirring every so often.
  7. Serve over spaghetti noodles.
Notes
*This sauce makes a lot so I love to freeze half of it for a quick meal at another time.
* I love the combo of ground turkey and sausage but if you omit the sausage you may need to up the seasonings.
*You can omit the vegetables or add any combo of them but I love the flavor they add and getting the extra vegetables in our diet.
Recipe by A Fireman's Wife at https://afiremanswife.com/2018/08/22/spaghetti-sauce/