Olive Garden Spaghetti Sauce

"I fiddled around with the original copy cat recipe until I got it where I wanted it and it tastes even better. Add more jelly and onion soup, if desired, but I found that more was too much."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
8
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ingredients

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 1 (14 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
  • 1 (6 ounce) can V8 vegetable juice
  • 1 (750 ml) jar ragu original spaghetti sauce
  • 12 envelope onion soup mix
  • 14 cup grape jelly
  • 1 -2 can mushroom, drained
  • 1 green pepper, finely chopped
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directions

  • Brown meat in oil.
  • Drain and run under hot water to get rid of excess fat.
  • Combine meat in a pot with rest of ingredients.
  • Bring to a boil over medium-high heat;reduce heat and simmer 20-25 minutes.

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Reviews

  1. I didn't cook this recipe, BUT Olive Garden's meat sauce has sausage. Always has.<br/><br/>They even has the little disclaimer (**Our meat sauce is made with with pan-seared beef and Italian sausage.) on their menu.
     
  2. This recipe was quite the surprise! I must admit I was very skeptical as I shopped for the ingrediants ( grape jelly you say??) This is very, very good! I used sliced fresh mushrooms instead of canned ones and sauteed them separately in a little olive oil before adding them to the sauce. This is a keeper!
     
  3. While I do really like this recipe, it is not Olive Garden's. In fact, it tastes almost nothing like it. For starters, OG puts Italian sausage in their recipe. Secondly, there are no mushrooms or bell peppers in theirs either. Like I said before, I like your recipe and I use it frequently, but let's be real about its origin.
     
  4. I love this recipe. It is easy and flavorful. I think it tastes just as good as Olive Garden's Spaghetti Sauce.
     
  5. Way too sweet! Omit 1/2 of the grape jelly and it would be good.
     
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Tweaks

  1. This is a great sauce! My entire picky family loves it, and it is fabulous in the crock pot all day too if you are going for a come home dinner. My son doesn't like "chunks of tomatoes" in his sauce, so we substitute tomato sauce for stewed tomates and omit the mushrooms and peppers. This is also (without the beef) a great sauce for chicken parmesan!
     
  2. YUM! this is delicious! The only change I made was that I used ground turkey in place of the ground beef. It was amazing! I never thought using grape jelly in spaghetti sauce but now I am hooked. It was a awesome ingredient. We didn't think it was to sweet. It's one of the best spaghetti sauces I have ever had. I used this over stuffed shells <a href="/162548">Stuffed Shells</a>. Thanks so much for sharing this delicious sauce!
     
  3. This recipe was quite the surprise! I must admit I was very skeptical as I shopped for the ingrediants ( grape jelly you say??) This is very, very good! I used sliced fresh mushrooms instead of canned ones and sauteed them separately in a little olive oil before adding them to the sauce. This is a keeper!
     

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