Lasagna Sauce
- Ready In:
- 6hrs
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
1 large pot
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 453.59 g veal
- 453.59 g beef steak
- 453.59 g hot Italian sausage
- 453.59 g lamb
- 750 ml bottle dry red wine
- 1360.77 g chopped yellow onions
- 3 head garlic, chopped
- 1 bunch parsley, chopped
- 59.14 ml chopped fresh basil
- 59.14 ml chopped fresh oregano
- 59.14 ml olive oil
- 1 chopped red onion
- 2 (1587.57 g) can tomatoes
- 793.78 g can tomato puree
- salt and pepper
- red pepper
- sugar
directions
- Brown meats to a dark, but not burnt, color over a medium high heat in a large sauté pan, leave meats in large pieces.
- Reserve fat in a separate bowl.
- Deglaze pan with 1/2 bottle of wine, pour sauce into a large stock pot set to simmer over a low heat.
- Add meat chunks and allow to simmer VERY slowly.
- Over a medium heat in your large sauté pan using olive oil: Sauté onion until soft, add garlic and herbs and continue to cook until lightly caramelized.
- This mixture will need to be stirred very often, add reserved meat juices as required to keep things from getting dried out-- add as much as possible without having extra grease collect in the pan.
- (Depending on the size of your pan you may need to do this in several smaller batches.).
- Add onions/herbs to simmering stock pot and bring back to slow simmer.
- Deglaze sauté pan with 1/2 bottle of wine and pour sauce into simmering stock pot.
- Continue to simmer and stir until onion starts to fall apart.
- (Don't clean your sauté pan yet, you're going to need it to make the lasagna!) Crush tomatoes by hand and them and the puree to the stock pot.
- Simmer for several hours (stirring often to keep sauce from sticking) Sauce will start to smooth out and darken in color.
- For the most part the onion will be gone.
- At this point taste the sauce and add salt, pepper, red pepper and sugar to taste.
- (Depending on much sugar you're able to render out of your onion you may not need to add any).
- You can also add more tomatoes, wine and herbs and spices at this point.
- Continue to simmer this sauce for several more hours then turn off the heat and allow to cool.
- Refrigerate at least one night.
- On the day you plan on serving the sauce start the sauce cooking over very low several hours before serving.
- Bring it to a slow simmer.
- After sauce starts to simmer water or wine can be added to bring sauce to proper consistency.
- About 30 minutes before serving remove the meat chunks and place in a separate serving bowl.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Steve_G
Fort Myers, Florida