Spaghetti sauce, a versatile and ubiquitous culinary creation, holds a special place in the hearts of food enthusiasts worldwide. This tantalizing sauce, often simmered to perfection over extended periods, forms the cornerstone of numerous beloved pasta dishes. Its rich, complex flavors, ranging from savory to spicy, complement an array of pasta shapes and additional ingredients, making it a highly adaptable culinary canvas.
This comprehensive guide presents an enticing collection of spaghetti sauce recipes, each meticulously crafted to cater to diverse palates and preferences. From classic Italian recipes passed down through generations to contemporary fusion creations bursting with bold flavors, this culinary journey promises to elevate your pasta-making skills to new heights. Whether you seek a quick and easy weeknight meal or an indulgent weekend feast, these recipes offer endless possibilities for creating unforgettable spaghetti dishes that will delight your senses and leave you craving more.
ALL DAY VERSATILE SAUCE
I have found that cooking your sauce all day like my father taught me is the best way. In addition to that, I make my sauce this way whether I am making linguine, stuffed shells or lasagna. I like to utilize convenience whenever possible so I use pre minced and jarred herbs. You can use what ever your preference is for meat, whether it be ground turkey meatballs or chicken Italian sausage. It will always be a hit with your family and friends! Try serving with your favorite pasta.
Provided by Nan Friskey
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Tomato
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- In a large pot saute onion, garlic, oregano and basil in 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the neck bones and let simmer with the lid on until the onions are transparent. Note: if using ground beef cook with onion mixture.
- Once onions are clear, add the tomato sauce, tomatoes, tomato paste and water. If using meat in your recipe add at this time. Cover and simmer for several hours.
- Before serving, remove neck bones and discard.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 329.9 calories, Carbohydrate 25.3 g, Cholesterol 56.8 mg, Fat 18.6 g, Fiber 5.7 g, Protein 18.7 g, SaturatedFat 6.7 g, Sodium 1359.8 mg, Sugar 16.2 g
KAY'S ALL DAY SPAGHETTI SAUCE
What a wonderfully thick sauce! It does, indeed, take all day to procure this delicious pasta topper, but it's well worth the time.
Provided by Kay Summitt Lewis
Categories Other Sauces
Time 8h
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- 1. In a skillet, brown the ground chuck over medium-high heat. Add onion, cook until there is no remaining pink color in beef. Drain off any liquids and set beef/onion mixture aside.
- 2. In a large pot over medium heat, mix together the canned tomatoes, tomato sauce and paste. (See tip below for flavored tomato products.) Stir until well mixed. Fill tomato paste can with water and then add that water to pot of tomato mixture. Then add in packaged spaghetti sauce spice mix and stir until well mixed. Add balsamic vinegar and brown sugar and stir. Add seasonings, stir well and heat until tomato mixture begins to bubble up/boil lightly. Reduce heat to just above simmer. Add in browned beef and onion mixture, and stir.
- 3. Next, add in the sliced mushrooms, diced bell pepper and sliced green onions, including sliced stems. Stir, cover and simmer over low heat 5-7 hours, stirring occasionally... every half hour works best.(You can make this in a crockpot, but it doesn't work as well as the slow simmer and stir method.) When stirring, try and always stir up any sauce that is thickening and sticking to the bottom so it will keep the flavors enriching the whole pot of sauce.
- 4. About 45 minutes before you plan to serve the meal: Add in the can of sliced black olives and stir.
- 5. About 15 minutes before you plan to serve the meal: Turn the heat OFF under the pot, remove the lid and let it sit to thicken.
- 6. Meanwhile, (as the sauce is thickening) bring a large pot of water to rapid boil. Boil pasta noodles according to directions on the package until "al dente". Drain and rinse quickly with cool water to stop the cooking process.
- 7. Serve pasta with heaping ladles of sauce, top with grated cheese. Serve with a side salad and garlic bread. Note: Leftovers reheated in the microwave are even better the next day since the sauce thickens even more! (I like to make this on Saturday so my hubby can have leftovers all weekend while I relax.)
- 8. HINT: When selecting the tomato sauce, tomato paste and petite diced tomatoes try using ones that are flavored with roasted garlic or basil or balsamic vinegar if they are available.
CHEF JOHN'S SUNDAY PASTA SAUCE
This sauce goes by many names, including Sunday sauce, since that's the day it's traditionally made, but for me growing up, this was just called 'sauce.' As long as you cook the meat long enough, and season thoughtfully, there's really no way this sauce isn't going to be great. So, while you may not have grown up in an Italian-American home, with this comforting sauce simmering on the stove every Sunday, your family still can. Serve the sauce over pasta and top with the tender meat.
Provided by Chef John
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Tomato
Time 4h50m
Yield 10
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
- Drizzle 1 tablespoon olive oil in the bottom of a large roasting pan. Place beef, pork, and chicken in pan and turn to coat with olive oil.
- Roast in the preheated oven until meat is well browned, 20 to 30 minutes.
- Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion with a pinch of salt in hot oil until onion is soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Pour crushed tomatoes, 1 1/2 cups water, and tomato paste into onion mixture. Add roasted beef, pork, and chicken to tomato sauce mixture.
- Pour remaining 1/2 cup water into the roasting pan, and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off of the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Pour roasting pan water mixture into tomato mixture. Stir Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, Italian parsley, 2 teaspoons salt, ground black pepper, and red pepper flakes into tomato sauce; bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low, and simmer gently until sauce reduces and meat is tender, about 4 hours. Transfer meat to a dish. Adjust sauce seasonings to taste.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 338.9 calories, Carbohydrate 20.3 g, Cholesterol 70.8 mg, Fat 19.6 g, Fiber 5.1 g, Protein 23.2 g, SaturatedFat 6.4 g, Sodium 915.6 mg, Sugar 1.3 g
SPAGHETTI SAUCE
This is a quick recipe for tomato sauce. I have just given the outline for the sauce, but you can add any kind of vegetables to it. I especially like it with mushrooms and peppers.
Provided by COURTNEYNOONAN
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes
Time 30m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a large saucepan heat oil over medium heat. Saute onion, green onion and garlic. When onions are clear, stir in tomatoes, basil, oregano and sugar. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 81.5 calories, Carbohydrate 11.1 g, Fat 2.6 g, Fiber 3.2 g, Protein 2.3 g, SaturatedFat 0.4 g, Sodium 310.2 mg, Sugar 6.7 g
HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE
Homemade Italian spaghetti sauce from an Italian family. The longer you cook it the better it tastes.
Provided by Cathy
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Tomato
Time 4h10m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- In large saucepan over medium heat, saute onion and garlic in olive oil until soft. Stir in tomatoes, tomato paste, water, Italian seasoning, basil, sugar, wine, and crushed red pepper. Reduce heat to low and simmer 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 123.5 calories, Carbohydrate 19.6 g, Fat 2.4 g, Fiber 6.1 g, Protein 5.8 g, SaturatedFat 0.3 g, Sodium 659.1 mg, Sugar 9.3 g
MY ALL DAY SPAGHETTI SAUCE
I'm posting this as a request of BoneMan. It's a good slow cooking sauce even better the next day. It does make a lot and freezes well. You can do a lot with the left overs. I'll post one of our favorites next. Feel free to add or omit anything. I tried real hard to measure it's usually a pinch of this and that, so amount are as close i can get, LOL. Along with the can tom I use tom out of the freezer from the summer garden that have been through the food mill and cooked down. I always have home made meatballs in the freezer so feel free to add your favorite m-ball recipe or store bought. Servings are a guess. Depends on what you do with it and how you freeze the left overs.
Provided by Jules211
Categories Chicken
Time 6h20m
Yield 15-20 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- I a large stock pot heat olive oil over med heat.
- Add your cubed meats (if using bone-in pork do first) to brown. You want to sear your meat. When meat is seared remove to a plate.
- To all the drippings add your onions, peppers and shrooms. Saute 3-5 minutes, until soft.
- Add garlic cook 2 minutes careful not to burn.
- Return meat to the pot.
- Add tomato paste.
- Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add wine cook for 2 minutes. Scrapping the bottom, you want all those good bits.
- Add the cans of tomatoes stir to mix well. Add all your dry spices and brown sugar.
- Bring to a soft boil, turn heat down to simmer.
- Add your meatballs.
- Use the chicken stock to thin as mine tends to get thick and bubble and spurt.
- As it simmers all day stir to not burn. Keep on the heat. Add 1/4 cup of the stock at a time as needed.
- Mine usually cooks 6-8 hours.
- Serve with pasta of your choice, salad and crusty garlic bread.
MY SUPER SIMPLE SPAGHETTI SAUCE
I needed some sauce and quick! I am not a fan of the jarred stuff...plus I didn't want to go to the store. This is a rendition of my favorite sauce Recipe #133806, just made simple and it doesn't have to cook all day.
Provided by HeidiSue
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 30m
Yield 4 1/2 cups, 2-3 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Throw it all in a sauce pan, stir, simmer, cover and continue to simmer for 20-30 minutes.
- Season again to taste.
- **we like a spicy sweet sauce -- so please adjust the sugar and crushed red to your liking**.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 211.7, Fat 1.3, SaturatedFat 0.2, Sodium 2392.6, Carbohydrate 49.3, Fiber 9.6, Sugar 37.9, Protein 8.5
AMY'S HOMEMADE ALL DAY SPAGHETTI SAUCE
I made this up one day just experimenting. I love this sauce, and so does my family. I am guessing on the serving size, as it makes a big pot. I usually freeze the left overs.
Provided by Vamy7913
Categories Sauces
Time 5h30m
Yield 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- Saute onion, garlic& carrot in olive oil over medium heat until tender.
- Add ground beef and brown until no longer pink.
- Add oregano, basil, garlic powder, parsley flakes,salt& pepper (to your liking)& worcestershire sauce.
- Add Merlot wine, simmer a few minutes.
- Add rest of ingredients and stir well.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer for at least 5 hours stirring occasionally.
- Remove bay leaves.
- Serve over cooked spaghetti noodles.
DIVINE SPAGHETTI SAUCE
This is one of those all-day simmering beef, tomato and herb sauces. It is very good and very nutritious! Ingredients can be increased or lessened to your taste. Freeze the remainder of sauce in plastic bags in serving sizes. Tastes better with each heating!!
Provided by Lana
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Meat Sauce
Time 6h30m
Yield 7
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- In a large skillet, brown beef over medium heat until no longer pink; cut up any remaining chunks of beef and reserve.
- In a large saucepan, combine whole tomatoes and paste; mash until smooth. Cover and heat on low.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, quickly sear onion and celery until transparent; add to tomato sauce in saucepan. In same skillet, saute bell peppers and mushrooms for a few minutes, but do not allow them to become soft; add to tomato sauce.
- Add Italian seasoning, dried red pepper flakes, bay leaves, basil and garlic to tomato sauce; add beef and mix. Remove cover, simmer over low heat and continue to simmer all day, stirring occasionally.
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
- Add sauce to pasta; serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 534.5 calories, Carbohydrate 75.7 g, Cholesterol 48.6 mg, Fat 15.6 g, Fiber 9.8 g, Protein 26.3 g, SaturatedFat 5.8 g, Sodium 773.7 mg, Sugar 16.8 g
Tips:
- For a richer flavor, use homemade chicken broth or beef broth instead of water.
- Add a splash of red wine or white wine to the sauce for an extra layer of flavor.
- If you like a spicy sauce, add a pinch of red pepper flakes or a chopped chili pepper.
- For a sweeter sauce, add a tablespoon of brown sugar or honey.
- If you're short on time, use a jar of store-bought spaghetti sauce and doctor it up with your own ingredients.
Conclusion:
This spaghetti sauce is the perfect way to add flavor to your next pasta dish. It's easy to make, versatile, and can be tailored to your own taste. Whether you like it simple or spicy, sweet or savory, this sauce is sure to please everyone at the table. So next time you're looking for a delicious and easy spaghetti sauce, give this recipe a try. You won't be disappointed!
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