This pasta sauce is excellent in lasagna or as a meat sauce. I use it in my popular lasagna recipe, so I thought I'd share it on its own.
Ingredients
- sweet Italian sausage: 1 pound (sliced)
- lean ground beef: 0.75 pound
- onion: 0.5 cup (minced)
- garlic: 2 clove (crushed)
- tomatoes: 1 can (28 ounce can, crushed)
- tomato sauce: 2 cans (6.5 ounce cans)
- tomato paste: 2 cans (6 ounce cans)
- water: 0.5 cup
- white sugar: 2 Tbsp
- basil: 1.5 tsp (dried)
- italian seasoning: 1 tsp
- fennel seed: 0.5 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- ground black pepper: 0.25 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Cook sausage, beef, onion, and garlic in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until browned; drain fat.
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Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and water. Mix in sugar, basil, Italian seasoning, fennel seed, salt, and pepper.
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Cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until cooked through, about 1 1/2 hours.
