Basic Spaghetti Sauce
photo by Boomette
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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24
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 green pepper, chopped (optional)
- 84 ounces crushed tomatoes
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 tablespoons italian seasoning
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 bay leaves
- 1⁄4 - 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- chopped fresh basil (optional)
directions
- Saute onion and pepper in oil until soft. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, spices and brown sugar. Adjust seasoning and sugar to taste. Simmer on low for 1-2 hours.
- Add chopped fresh basil just before serving.
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Reviews
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This is delicious, quick and easy spaghetti sauce. The seasoning was perfect as is - the flavour was great. I cooked mine for 1 hour which gave a nice thick sauce. I did add halved and whole mushrooms in the last 1/2 hour of cooking as I love mushrooms with pasta sauce. I used 1/2 tsp of pepper flakes which definitely gave quite and after burn so I would use just under 1/2 in the future. Thanks Erindipity!!
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