Hearty Meat Sauce

  4.3 – 5 reviews  • Tomato

I love this because my grandmother made it for us when we were kids. It is a meaty, thick sauce that is perfect for pasta like spaghetti. Texas garlic bread would naturally be the preferred bread.

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 45 mins
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  1. ½ pound ground beef
  2. 2 (16 ounce) jars spaghetti sauce
  3. 1 diced yellow pepper
  4. 1 diced red bell pepper
  5. 1 (14.5 ounce) can peeled and diced tomatoes, drained
  6. 6 fresh mushrooms, coarsely chopped

Instructions

  1. In a skillet over medium heat, brown the ground beef until no pink shows; drain.
  2. In a large pot combine browned beef and spaghetti sauce over medium heat for 5 or 10 minutes. Add yellow peppers, red peppers, canned tomatoes and mushrooms. Lower heat and simmer covered for 30 minutes, stirring every once in a while.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 351 kcal
Carbohydrate 39 g
Cholesterol 39 mg
Dietary Fiber 8 g
Protein 16 g
Saturated Fat 5 g
Sodium 1111 mg
Sugars 25 g
Fat 14 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

James Gentry
Added diced onion and garlic with the meat as I browned it. For my personal bowl I added crushed red pepper flakes. Subbed the ground beef for Johnsonville Mild Italian sausage and the flavor really popped!
Ricky Chambers
I sauteed some fresh minced garlic and a whole diced onion that I sauteed in a little EVOO with the mushrooms before adding the rest of the ingredients. After tasting it, I did add in some homemade italian seasoning. More sauce-y than meat-y. Probably not something I’d make again but good in a pinch.
Anna Johnson
I would add a large chopped onion to this recipe(for onion lovers) It would have a tastier flavor!
Wanda Flynn
Delicious! I make this and pour it over baked garlic bread for an easy supper.
Brian Dean
I decided to try this recipe using some of my home grown tomatoes from my garden, peeling and smushing them up, about 2 cups worth. (I’m drowning in tomatoes!) I used it with a batch of homemade Rigatoni noodles made with my pasta maker. It was FABULOUS! So quick and easy! It’s got the ease of a hamburger helper meal with the yummy factor of home style cookin!

 

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