Best Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

HOMEMADE CANNED SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, bring 2 quarts water to a boil. Using a slotted spoon, place tomatoes, one at a time, in boiling water for 30-60 seconds. Remove each tomato and immediately plunge into ice water. Peel and quarter tomatoes; place in a stockpot., Pulse green peppers and onions in batches in a food processor until finely chopped; transfer to stockpot. Stir in next 11 ingredients. Add water to cover; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 4-5 hours, stirring occasionally., Discard bay leaves. Add 2 tablespoons lemon juice to each of 9 hot 1-qt. jars. Ladle hot mixture into jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace, if necessary, by adding hot mixture. Wipe rims. Center lids on jars; screw on bands until fingertip tight., Place jars into canner with simmering water, ensuring that they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil; process for 40 minutes. Remove jars and cool.

HOMEMADE MEATLESS SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute onions in oil until tender. Add the tomatoes, garlic, bay leaves, salt, oregano, pepper and basil. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally., Add tomato paste and brown sugar; simmer, uncovered, for 1 hour. Discard bay leaves. Serve with pasta and basil, if desired.

THE BEST HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE EVER. PERIOD.

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven. cook the beef, sausage, onions and garlic over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain.
• Transfer to a 5-qt slow cooker.
• Stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste, water, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, oil and seasonings.
• Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or until bubbly.
• Discard bay leaves.
• Serve with Spaghetti.

HEARTY HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook the beef, peppers, celery, onion and garlic over medium heat until meat is no longer pink and vegetables are tender; drain. Add the mushrooms; cook for 2 minutes. , Stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste, water, bay leaf, sugar, salt, basil, oregano and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 45 minutes, stirring often. Discard bay leaf. Serve sauce over spaghetti. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine the celery, onion, green pepper and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; cook, uncovered, for 10-12 minutes or until vegetables are tender and water is reduced., Crumble sausage over vegetable mixture; cook until meat is no longer pink. Stir in the tomato sauce, tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley, garlic, Italian seasoning, sugar, salt, pepper and remaining water. , Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 45-50 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve with spaghetti. Garnish with cheese if desired.

HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE (HOMECANNING)

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together in large pot.
• Simmer for 2 hours AFTER it starts to boil, stirring occasionally.
• Fill jars, leaving one-inch headspace; wipe rims, place lids and screw bands on fingertip-tight.
• For pints, pressure can for 20 minutes@ 10# pressure.
• For quarts, pressure 25 minutes@ 10# pressure.
• Makes about 20 pints or about 10 quarts.

HOMEMADE OVEN ROASTED TOMATO SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Cut tomatoes length wise, take the core out. Put the halved tomatoes into a large bowl. Take the cores and put them into a blender, and set aside for later.
• Infuse the oil by putting the olive oil, green and red bell pepper, garlic, and shallot into another bowl, stir and microwave 30-45 seconds.
• Add thyme, basil, and rosemary to the halved tomatoes in the large bowl, and drizzle the oil mixture over the halved tomatoes, gently stir to coat.
• Lay the tomatoes cut side up on a baking sheet or a casserole dish (metal or glass). "I used glass".
• Pour the rest of the mixture over the tomatoes.
• Set oven to 400 degrees, and cook tomatoes till they are slightly brown, or softened for a lighter colored sauce (30 min.- 1 1/2 hour).
• Turn them over when they reach desired look. .
• Blend the tomato cores on high, and pour them into a pot, and set aside.
• After the tomatoes are done roasting in the oven, put them into the blender, and blend them on high as well.
• Add roasted tomatoes to the core mixture in the pot, stir and bring to a boil.
• If you wish, add splenda to calm down the acidity in the sauce.
• Simmer sauce for about 15-20 minute.
• Save for later: Put lemon juice on the bottom of a freezer safe container, and pour sauce on top of lemon juice. Freeze until you are ready to use. This will keep for several months in the freezer. When you are ready to use it, thaw, and add 1/4 cup of Cabernet Sauvignon wine, bring to a boil, and cook for several minutes until the alcohol is cooked out of the dish.
• Use now: Add lemon juice, and 1/4 cup of Cabernet Sauvignon wine, and bring to a boil, and cook for several minutes until the alcohol is cooked out of the dish.
• Serve as a condiment, over pasta, or over an Italian Turkey meat loaf.

WEIGHT WATCHERS 0 PT. HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Saute the diced onion and green pepper in a large cooking pot using the cooking spray 5 or so minutes (until soft). Add the garlic and cook another minute or so. Add all other ingredients and simmer for 30-45 minutes.
• (As I explained above - I cook 2 Italian sausage links and cut into small pieces and add when adding all other ingredients (or cut off the casing and brown it). Serve over your choice of pasta (I use Ronzoni Smart Taste Spaghetti at 170 calories w/ .5 gram fat and 5 grams fiber - 3 pts for 1 serving (2 oz uncooked))).

AUTHENTIC HOMEMADE ITALIAN GRAVY (SPAGHETTI SAUCE)

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a dutch oven or pot (large enough to contain all sauce ingredients) over medium heat. When hot but not smoking, add onion and garlic and saute until onion is translucent and garlic is fragrant. Be sure to stir every couple minutes so the garlic doesn't burn. If you want to leave the garlic in the sauce, you may do so, but if not, now is the time to remove garlic from the pot. I personally leave it in because my family loves garlic. If you choose to remove it, there will only be a very subtle garlic flavor present in the sauce.
• Add ground beef to pot with onion and olive oil. Fry, breaking up until small pieces are all that's left. Drain if excess oil is present; I recommend using lean ground beef for health reasons and draining.
• Once drained, add both cans of tomatoes, filling with 1.4 can of water afterwards to rinse the remaining sauce out and add to pot. Add chopped or broken up basil leafs if using fresh, or add dried basil at this time. Also add salt and pepper to pot. Stir well, breaking up any large chunks of tomato against the side of the pot.
• Allow pot to come to a simmering boil, and then turn heat down to low. Place lid on the pot, stirring every 5 minutes or so. Allow to simmer for 30-45 minutes. When the proper time has passed, taste the sauce and add more salt and pepper to your liking.
• Once this time has elapsed, your sauce is done and you are ready to use it for whatever you want - baked ziti, lasagna, spaghetti, stuffed peppers, or over polenta. You can also make a meatless version by simply omitting the ground beef, and you may use the sauce for pizza as well! It's a great, flavorful, and very versatile sauce for all occasions. Enjoy!

HOMEMADE CHUNKY SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Get a skillet deep enough to hold the contents and the liquid of the sauce. Remember that the veggies will cook down so you need not use a pot unless you are doubling the recipe
• Quarter your mushrooms.
• Use about ½ a green pepper. You may use more or less depending on your taste for green pepper.
• Chunk the onion. Kind of like strips then cut the strips in half. This gives the sauce a great flavor.
• Heat your pan and add the olive oil. Make sure that the olive oil covers the bottom of the pan.
• Add your onion and sauté until they are almost clear.
• Add your green pepper and sauté until they are almost soft.
• Add your mushrooms and sauté until they are almost soft.
• If you are using zucchini, add now. This will take awhile to cook down so be patient.
• At this point you may need to add more oil or butter.
• When your veggies are at a good constancy, add 1-2 cans of diced tomatoes, 2 cans of sliced black olives, 2 pinches of dried basil, and the jalapeno or red pepper if you chose to use.
• Cover and let simmer for 30-45 minutes on low.
• Start cooking linguine
• By the time the linguine is done, so should be your sauce.
• Drain and serve linguine and cover with sauce.

HOMEMADE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI SAUCE AND MEATBALLS

Steps:

• 1. This makes a lot of sauce, so you will need a very large soup pot with a good weight to it.
• 2. Cover the bottom of the pan with olive oil (you want just enough to barely cover the bottom of the pan) begin to warm the oil gently.
• 3. Place peeled garlic cloves in oil, on low heat cook cloves until just starting to lightly blister. Do not let the garlic brown or burn. Remove garlic.
• 4. Add tomato paste, one can at a time, thoroughly incorporating the olive oil into the tomato paste each time. I find this is easier to do with a wire whisk.
• 5. Add tomato puree mixing thoroughly. Add tomato sauce and mix well.
• 6. At this point, some water can be added, as the sauce will be cooking for at least 6 hours and will thicken as it cooks. I wouldn't add more than 2 of the paste cans full of water. Mix well.
• 7. Add Italian seasoning, garlic powder, bay leaves, and salt. Additional cloves of garlic can be added. depends on how garlicky you want the sauce.
• 8. Cover pan with lid cocked and simmer on low for at least 6 hours. Stirring occasionally, to keep the sauce from sticking to the bottom. While the sauce is getting hot, mix together the meatballs, see below.
• 9. My mother used veal in her meatballs. The price of veal is so expensive I have started using ground sirloin and ground chuck. The rule of thumb here is to use 2 parts lean veal or sirloin to 1 part ground chuck.
• 10. Mix together, ground sirloin (or veal), ground chuck, finely diced onion, garlic, Italian seasoning, ground black pepper, parsley, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, and eggs.
• 11. Using a spoon (I like to use my large cookie scoop), take a good amount of meat mixture and roll in the palm of your hand, forming a ball. The meatballs should hold together and be about the size of a golfball. I like to get a plateful of meatballs made then drop them into the hot sauce. Then go back and make another plateful to be dropped in the sauce. Repeat until all meatballs have been added to the sauce. Gently, so as not to break up meatballs, push and stir the sauce to get the meatballs down into the sauce.
• 12. Cover with lid cocked, so steam can escape and thicken the sauce. Simmer on low on the stovetop. After about 1/2 hour check the meatballs and stir carefully, making sure the meatballs do not stick. The sauce and meatballs should cook for at least 6 hours or longer if you like. About 1 hr before serving add a pinch of sugar and stir well, being careful not to break up the meatballs. Add the Parmesan cheese. Mom never stirred the cheese into the sauce, she just let it melt into the sauce. Be careful after adding the sugar and cheese, as they could cause the sauce to stick on the bottom. Remove bay leaves before serving.
• 13. Serve sauce and meatballs over hot cooked pasta and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese on top.

DANNY'S HOMEMADE FRESH INGREDIENTS SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add ground beef and cumin; cook and stir until meat is browned lightly, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir in chopped tomatoes, chopped onions, diced bell pepper, and minced garlic; cook and stir until meat is browned and vegetables are soft, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Combine quartered tomatoes, chunked onion, bell pepper, water, vinegar, garlic cloves, Worcestershire sauce, basil, oregano, parsley, cilantro, paprika, soy sauce, hot sauce, brown sugar, and salt in a blender; blend sauce to desired thickness. Add more water if a thinner sauce is desired.
• Pour sauce onto ground beef; cover and cook until the sauce reaches desired consistency, 15 to 20 minutes.

AMY'S HOMEMADE ALL DAY SPAGHETTI SAUCE

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.

GRANDMA'S HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Pour the cans of crushed tomatoes, tomato puree and tomato paste into a large stockpot. Fill up the empty puree can with water and add to stockpot.
• 2. Cut ends of onion & peel. Put in stockpot whole.
• 3. Put stockpot on stove & turn on high. You will want the sauce to just begin boiling and then you can turn it down to low.
• 4. Add rest of ingredients while sauce is heating up. Stir well once everything is added.
• 5. Sauce will thicken as you cook it. The longer you cook it, the thicker it will get.
• 6. I will often divide the sauce up into freezer bags or stackable tupperware and put into the freezer for easy dinners at a later date.
• 7. I recommend adjusting the herbs to your own taste. This does not taste anything like a canned sauce! However, it is very healthy! Add meat, more garlic, veggies, cheese, cream, etc for each specific meal. Let me know what you've tried and what you think of the sauce!! Thank you!

ZESTY HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a medium skillet, brown the sausage (or beef) with the chopped onion until no pink remains in the sausage and the onion is transparent. Drain excess grease.
• In the meantime, heat oil in a kettle or stock pot, and sauté the minced garlic, mushroom pieces, and green pepper in the oil until the pepper is tender. Add remaining ingredients, including enough mushroom juice or water to reach the right consistency. Cover; let sauce simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
• Add the browned meat/onion mixture to the kettle. Cover and let the sauce simmer for 20 minutes. Serve over cooked and drained spaghetti noodles.

HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE WITH GROUND BEEF

Steps:

• Mince onion and bell pepper.
• Heat oil in medium pan.
• Put minced onion and bell pepper into small bowl and add garlic and toss around.
• sauté in oil on low until very lightly toasted.
• Add ground beef and brown on medium.
• Drain excess grease.
• pour tomato sauce in medium bowl.
• add onion powder, black pepper, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning and mix.
• pour into pan with ground beef and simmer 7-10 minutes
• serve over pasta for a delicious delight!

MAMMA'S HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. In skillet, cook Italian or wild game sausage (ground beef if you choose) and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain (unless using wild game sausage where there will not be any meaningful liquid to drain)
• 2. Transfer to slow cooker (crockpot)
• 3. add the remaining ingredients and stir well to mix. Cover with bay leaves on top.
• 4. cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours. Take lid off slow cooker for the last hour to allow liquid to cook off...
• 5. discard bay leaves and serve over spaghetti/pasta...do not rinse the pasta as you will loose the starch (rinsing of pasta is not recommended)
• 6. We now sprinkle parm cheese on the plate before the pasta as a nice touch and to mop up any liquid separation from the sauce (although there will be none)...and of course parm cheese on top. Enjoy!

HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

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.

SEMI-HOMEMADE CROCK POT SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• finely dice green, yellow and red bell peppers and onions real small.
• heat oil in large deep pan at medium high heat until hot.
• add the diced vegetables and half the minced garlic, half the salt and half the pepper.
• cook the vegetable mixture stirring constantly (like stir-fry) until slightly softened.
• add the ground chuck to the pan with the vegetable mixture and brown until no longer pink.
• drain and put in the bottom of the slow cooker and turn on low.
• in a small mixing bowl add sauce, shredded Parmesan cheese (shredded works better than grated for this recipe), basil, oregano, the rest of the minced garlic, salt and pepper and mix well.
• pour sauce mixture over the meat mixture in the slow cooker and mix both the meat and sauce mixtures together well.
• cook on low 4-6 hours.
• use over the pasta of your choice but we prefer spaghetti or fettuccine use a heavy pasta.

HOMEMADE PASTA - SPAGHETTI SAUCE - THIS AIN'T NO PREGO

Steps:

• Prepare all the veggies, garlic and parsley, chopping everything up very small so they cook into the sauce well.
• Heat oil in a dutch oven and add the meat, onion, garlic, carrot, celery, and green pepper.
• Saute until the meat is brown and the begin to veggies soften.
• Drain the grease well and add the red wine, deglazing the pan by scraping any brown bits from the bottom of the pan.
• Add the whole tomatoes and break them up a little with your spoon or spatula. If you want them very small, cut them against the side of the can with a sharp knife.
• Add brown sugar, tomato sauce and paste, parsley, basil, oregano and thyme(or Italian seasoning) bay leaf, pepper flakes, cinnamon, salt and pepper.
• Simmer until all the veggies are very tender and everything is cooked to your satisfaction. This could be all day or just about 30 minutes. Taste the sauce and add any additional seasoning to your taste.
• When just about ready to serve turn the heat up to about medium to get it really warm. Add the vinegar and parmesan and cook 10 min more.
• Serve over any pasta with extra parmesan if desired.