Down Home Spaghetti Sauce
10
Servings
7
Ingredients
20
Comments
This more traditional spaghetti sauce is so rich and hearty that your family will be coming back for seconds. It is also BEST when it is frozen or sits for a day or two!
10
Servings
7
Ingredients
20
Comments
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups cook Ground Beef
- ¾ cups cook Ground Sausage
- 2 teaspoons mince Garlic, Cloves
- ¾ cups dice Onion
- 79 ounces Diced Tomatoes, Canned
- 79 ounces Tomato Sauce
- 1 tablespoon Oregano, Dried
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
Stovetop
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- Combine meat, garlic and onion together in a large stock pot.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
Stovetop
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- Thaw: In fridge
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
Stove Cook
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- Combine meat, garlic and onion together in a large stock pot and heat through.
- Add in diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and oregano.
- Cook on low for 6 hours. Stirring occasionally.
- Serve over spaghetti noodles.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe
- 10 Servings
- Serving Size
- about 1 cup Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 259
- Total Fat
- 11g
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 45mg
- Sodium
- 1779mg
- Total Carbohydrates
- 24g
- Fiber
- 7g
- Sugar
- 14g
- Protein
- 17g
- WW Freestyle
- 4
20 Comments
Join the discussionMy husband loves sausage with his spaghetti so I bet he’d really like this!
79 Ounces?! I swear I’m reading that wrong LOL.
Nope, you aren’t! It makes A LOT!
sounds yummy! think i am gonna let this cook on low in the crockpot for 6 hrs and see how it goes…thanks!
In law sauce would have been a good name. 🙂
Can you cook this in the crock pot as well? There’s no way I could leave my stove on for 6 hours!
Yes, in fact on the cooking day that is exactly what we do! 🙂
Just keeping it honest in this post…we didnt like this sauce at our house. I have to give my 5 year old and husband credit, they did eat it for dinner, but it wasnt any better than our favorite jar sauce. I made this sauce and the meatballs over two days this weekend, and the time spent in cooking and the AMOUNT of sauce (I had to split it between my crock pot and a pot on the stove) did not justify the convenience and ease of our fav. jarred sauce and frozen meatballs. Glad I tried it, but it was a miss for us. (I did also make the Eggplant Parm. and the no-back lasagna, will let you know how we like those later!)
Thank you for the recipe idea, i will be trying it out this week!. – Joanne
This was the BEST Recipe I have ever tried (and I have tried many). I have never found a sauce or meatball recipe that the whole family enjoys but I have now! This sauce recipe and your meatball recipe was easy and super delicious! I even got a “As good as my Mom’s” comment from my husband which is a BIG plus in my book:)I didn’t change a thing except added garlic to the meatballs because I am Italian and that is what I do:) lol
Man, my grandmomma was Italian and she made the most delicious meatballs I ever tasted, like you wouldnt believe. Sadly, she didnt leave a recipe for me so I’ve been trying to work it out by myself… slowly working my through the meatball recipes here, I still cant figure out what her secret ingredient was though!!!
This is great, this is different than my method but i will give it a try. Thank you
Such simple and wholesome ingredients. I love it. Been looking for a reason to stop buying jar sauces. I think I will make a huge stockpot of this and freeze for later use. Thanks!
I know this may be a dumb question lol but this can be done with homegrown tomatoes cooked down right? I know I have to seed and squeeze them and all, but would it freeze and work/taste the same? and if so do you have any idea of about how many pounds of tomatoes I need? my granddad has a large garden and I plan to take FULL ADVANTAGE this season 🙂
This is a great question. Yes, you can definitely do that. Probably the best reference is Gourmet Slueth – http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/D…. They state that 3 medium = 1 lbs and this calls for nearly 5 lbs of tomato sauce and 5 lbs of tomatoes. So you would need 10 lbs = 30 medium. Sound right to you?
I made this sauce today…it seems to have reduced in volume during the simmer time. is that to be expected?
yes, it is to be expected. It is even thicker and better the day after or after freezing. MMMM. We had that for dinner tonight too!
it was gooood! my son came home from school and asked me why the house smelled so good. I’m going to make 2 batches of lasagna withwith the sauce and I froze another portion for a spaghetti dinner night.
hey i want to use this spaghetti recipe but the 79 ounces is really throwing me off. is that correct? that’s like 5 pounds of diced tomatoes…
Hi Robyn, yes it’s correct but it will cook down while in the slow cooker. You will also see that it serves 8-10 people so it’s a lot of spaghetti sauce. You could always use less if you preferred or even half the recipe if you are feeding less. Enjoy!