All things Oktoberfest come together in this delicious dish! It features spaetzle, sausage, and sauerkraut that has been seasoned with apples, bacon, brown sugar, and sauteed onions. Yum! This recipe is quite satisfying and reheats wonderfully the next day!
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 50 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) can whole tomatoes
- 5 cloves garlic, peeled
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 white onion, chopped
- 1 pound mushrooms, sliced
- 1 (16 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- 8 ounces tomato paste
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 2 tablespoons dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried basil leaves
Instructions
- In a blender chop the whole tomatoes with juice and garlic until chunky. In a medium size pot, heat oil on medium high heat. Put onion and mushroom in and saute for about 5 minutes.
- Place in pot the blended tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, chopped green peppers, oregano and basil. Bring to boil, then lower to medium low, cover and stir periodically. Cook and reduce about 1 to 2 hours or to your liking.
Reviews
Awesome recipe just made it!
I liked this sauce as i also use paste in my sauce. Otherwise it comes to thin. I dont use mushrooms but put meatballs in the sauce after i fry them and cook longer. thanks
I don’t know where to find 16 oz cans of tomatoes; mine come in 14.5 oz and tomato paste in 6 oz cans, so I had to pull out high school math to convert, lol. I don’t like green pepper and put it in anyway but chunky so I could pick out the pieces. Next time, it goes in with a regular size chop. I added meatballs, but with or without–man, it was good!!!
Wonderful recipe. I did not use canned tomatoes however since I had the rest of my fresh Roma’s from the garden to use up. I did use the tomato paste and the rest of the recipe. I also added some brown sugar which is just what it needed to lower the acidic taste. Not too much though we don’t want to spike your sugar.
This sauce is excellent!
I was SUPER excited to try this recipe after reading the reviews, but I HAD to have done something wrong. Though I did follow it to a “T”. The sauce was very very bitter! It was also very bland… which surprised me. I tried adding some sugar and some other seasonings to help but nothing could rescue it. My family liked it and they ate it, and my husband said he liked it(though I think he was just being sweet), but I personally couldn’t stand it. I think I might try making it once more… but as it stands right now this was a total let down for me :^(
Maybe I did something wrong, please tell me. I followed the directions as given. 5 cloves of garlic seemed to much and it was. Sauce was very very bland even after adding salt and sugar.Everyone else seemed to like it but it was terrible for me.
First time making sauce. This sauce came out AMAZING. I didn’t add mushrooms, basil and and crushed tomatoes. i only used whole tomatoes. Came out so good. . I did add 2 teaspoons of salt and 2 teaspoons of sugar to make it a little more sweet, since it did taste a little bitter. Great Recipe. Thanks…
This sauce was excellent and very fresh tasting. I added some water to make it a little thinner. It was to thick for my taste. Also I added a few packets of sugar to make it a little more sweet. A few extra added spices and this was perfect. I will never buy jarred pasta sauce again.
Delicious! My boyfriend loved this sauce. I was so angry because the mushrooms I had went bad, so I had to leave them out. The sauce was great without them, though!
Taste exactly what my Mom used to make. Ah! the memories…She is gone now. But I can finally recreate her recipe thanks to you…It was marvelous.
This is a delicious sauce recipe. I omitted the mushrooms but it turned out well. I added a pound of ground beef I had sauteed with spices and had a delicious meat sauce to serve over pasta. Thanks.
I love this sauce. I didn’t have mushrooms, but improvised with a small amount of brown sugar, minced garlic and lean ground beef. It is an excellent foundational recipe for Italian dishes.
This sauce was very good and easy, however I did skip the green pepers, and added meat and it still turned out good. Thanks for sharing your recipe, my family loved it!
This is such an easy recipe! It came out wonderful and I used the sauce for eggplant parmigiana. Thank you for sharing!