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Do you make your own spaghetti sauce?
I want to make a homemade spaghetti sauce (using canned tomatoes). Does anybody have a recipe? I tried all recipe's and found one but I thought I would get your opinion too.
I have also heard to through a dash of sugar in with it. Does anybody do that?
Re: Do you make your own spaghetti sauce?
Yes, but I don't have a recipe for it. I just throw a bunch of stuff together, and add broccoli to mine instead of meat.
I have never added sugar.
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
Do you use flavored diced tomatoes or regular? And one person told me to also use tomato puree and tomato sauce?
I used to when I had more time and I believe the recipe I used did call for a dash of sugar. Since, I get home later now, I have been using TJ's spaghetti sauce and to me it tastes homemade. I love it.
Let me dig up the recipe for it.
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
I usually use a can of diced tomatoes, a small can of tomato paste and a small can of tomato sauce. Then I throw in some dried herbs like basil, oregano, pepper and garlic salt. I usually put in a can of water- using the small tomato paste can. Bring it to a boil for about 5-10 minutes then its good to go
Its mostly just eyeballed- no real "recipe" for it.
I have friends who like to add sugar to theirs- but I don't like the sweetness of it.
I bought another brand (gasp) and it was horrible, sooo bland! I will never do that again.
I looove my spaghetti sauce (same sauce I used for the gtg on my lasagna).
I'll give it to you Saturday. : )
What, you're making me spaghetti sauce? What?
:P
Ok, so I can't find the recipe on my google reader. But basically almost all the recipes I have seen and like the other girls have mentioned above it includes diced tomatoes, tomato paste, and tomato sauce and spices.
I like to make mine with less tomato paste as I am not big of a fan of it. Sometimes, I don't put it at in at all. I like to cook some onion, garlic and butter in the bottom of the saucepan for a little bit and then add the rest of the ingredients. I try to let it simmer as long as possible. Some recipes I have seen they say to let it simmer for 2 hours. I don't have that much time normally. 15 minutes is normally good enough.
HTH!
Robyn, do you think the more you make, the more time it would need to simmer?
I make my own, matter of fact I made spaghetti last night! I don't use a recipe, so I can't give you exact amounts, it's one of those by taste type things.
Meat (1 lb) I use ground beef, or turkey or sometimes 1/2 lb of italian sausage 1/2 lb of ground meat
1/2 big onion finely diced
1 tbs of basil (about)
1tbs of oregano (about)
1 tbs of olive oil
salt and season salt
pinch of sugar
2 large cloves of garlic (pressed or finely chopped)
1 big can of crushed tomatoes
1 can of diced tomatoes
I sweat the onions in the olive oil, then add the oregano and basil. I add the meat and season it with season salt to taste, and let it brown up. Then I add the canned tomatoes and garlic. If it's too acidic I add a pinch of sugar, and sometimes additional salt. Then I just let it simmer for however long it takes for the pasta to boil.
This makes a big batch, you could probably freeze half unless you like to eat spaghetti for a couple of days!
I'm really late to the game with this, but here's what I do.
2 cans tomato past
couple fresh tomatos (you can sub a can of chopped or diced tomatos though)
1 zucchini, shredded
basil
oregano
fresh garlic, minced
salt & pepper
Throw everything together in a pot, simmer until hot throughout. You can freeze the extras.