Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

This Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipe is full of cool flavors, plenty of garlic, and fresh tomato flavor. just mix your ingredients in a pot to cook for a couple of hours and you’ll have the most flavorful spaghetti meat sauce recipe ever!

We’re making spaghetti meat sauce because I think the meat adds so much rich flavor to the sauce. Even when I make meat sauce, we still sometimes add my turkey meatballs. So good!

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HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

This sauce is full of Italian flavors! It will make enough to coat 2 pounds of spaghetti, but I usually just use it for one pound of spaghetti and then we dip bread in the leftovers. It keeps well in the fridge for 4 days or in the freezer for a few months.

Course Breakfast, lunch/dinner

Cuisine african, American

Keyword HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE, SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 4 hours

Total Time 4 hours 10 minutes

Servings 16

Calories 130kcal

Ingredients

• 1/2  pound ground beef
• ▢1/2  pound pork sausage
• ▢1  medium onion finely diced
• ▢6  cloves garlic minced
• ▢56  ounces canned crushed tomatoes
• ▢6  ounces tomato paste
• ▢2  tablespoons  italian seasoning
• ▢1  tablespoon  sugar or to taste
• ▢1  teaspoon  salt
• ▢1/2  teaspoon  red pepper flakes

Instructions

• In a large pot over medium heat, cook the ground beef and pork until no longer pink. Do not drain.
• Add the onion and garlic to the pot with the meat and cook over low heat until the onions are soft and the garlic is fragrant.
• Add the remaining ingredients to the pot and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 2-4 hours.
• Taste and add additional sugar, salt, or red pepper as desired.