Homemade Meat Sauce

• servings: 3 servings
• active time: 15 minutes
• total time: 3 hours 15 minutes

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

12 ounces ground beef

12 ounces ground pork

1 large yellow onion (finely chopped)

3 cloves garlic (minced)

4 tablespoons dried basil

Salt and pepper (to taste)

½ cup red wine

2 28-ounce cans crushed tomatoes

1 28-ounce can tomato puree

Directions

Heat the olive oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. When it is shimmering, add the ground beef, pork and veal, and cook, breaking it up with a wooden spoon, until the meat is browned.

Add the onion and garlic to the meat mixture and sauté, stirring occasionally, until the onions are translucent, about 7 to 10 minutes. Stir in the dried basil and season with salt and pepper.

Stir in the red wine and let simmer for about 1 minute, until mostly evaporated.

Reduce the heat to low and add the crushed tomatoes and tomato puree to the pot, stirring to incorporate. Reduce the heat to the lowest simmer possible, and place a lid on the pot slightly ajar. Simmer for 2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally.

Notes

How I made it

11oz ground beef and 10 oz pork. Browned in pan with olive oil. Then dumped into crockpot

Put olive oil and diced yellow onion in pan and cook for about 5 min. Then added tomato paste and water 6 ox each. Also added 4 tablespoons of minced garlic and cooked for another 5 min

Added 2 15 oz can of cento tomato sauce to crock pot along with onion tomato puree.

Added 1/2 cup red wine, salt, pepper, Italian seasonings. And little bit of red pepper

Mixed and let cook

Crockpot low 6 hours

1 pound pasta linguine

Sauce on stove for 30ish min to thicken. Medium low heat. I removed nearly all liquid

Stirred crockpot hourly (at least)

10/10

6 servings

Slightly too much pasta to sauce ratio

Mix 1 part tomato paste with 2 parts water to approximate the texture and flavor of tomato purée.

Nutrition

• Calories: 877 kcal
• Total Fat: 42 g
• Saturated Fat: 12 g
• Cholesterol: 163 mg
• Sodium: 944 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 70 g
• Dietary Fiber: 17 g
• Total Sugars: 37 g
• Protein: 58 g