Best Mamas Italian Pasta Sauce Recipes

JO MAMA'S WORLD FAMOUS SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• In large, heavy stockpot, brown Italian sausage, breaking up as you stir.
• Add onions and continue to cook, stirring occasionally until onions are softened.
• Add garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce and water.
• Add basil, parsley, brown sugar, salt, crushed red pepper, and black pepper.
• Stir well and barely bring to a boil.
• Stir in red wine.
• Simmer on low, stirring frequently for at least an hour. A longer simmer makes for a better sauce, just be careful not to let it burn!
• Cook spaghetti according to package directions.
• Spoon sauce over drained spaghetti noodles and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.

MAMA LEONE'S ITALIAN TOMATO SAUCE (GOOD FOR MANY USES)

Steps:

• Put all ingredients (except the meat and onions) in a large pot.
• Stir well and bring to a boil. Continue to stir occasionally until it boils, so the cinnamon is incorporated.
• Reduce to a simmer and cook for three to four hours. Continue to stir occasionally. You can speed up this step, if you leave it on a boil, but I think the flavour improves if it is not rushed.
• The sauce needs to cook until it bloops-namely until the sauce splashes out of the pot and makes a bit of a mess on the stove top (or wall in my case).
• Remove and discard the chillies and bay leaves.
• What to do next if you intend to serve this sauce over pasta. Saute the beef until it loses most of its pink colouring, then add the onions and saute until tender.
• Drain off any fat.
• Add meat mixture to cooked sauce and stir well.
• Heat the mixture well, then ladle over pasta.

MAMA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven, melt the butter with the olive oil, add the garlic and onion, and saute until onion is soft/translucent.
• Add the ground sirloin and Italian sausage and cook until no longer pink.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients, adding the bay leaves last so as not to break them up during stirring. Adjust the seasonings as needed to suit your taste.
• Bring the sauce to a boil, then turn heat down to the lowest possible heat and let simmer for 2 hours covered with an offset lid.
• Serve with cooked spaghetti and parmesan cheese.

MAMA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE WITH ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Place sausage in a skillet. Add hot water, cover, and cook for 10 minutes.
• Remove sausages and separate links if necessary. Discard drippings.
• In a large Dutch Oven, saute mushrooms, carrot and onion just until al dente.
• Add sausages.
• Add remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer 1 hour, or until thickened, stirring occasionally.
• Serve over pasta, or by itself with hot crusty bread.

GRANDMA MAGGIO'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat, and cook and stir the onion and garlic until translucent but not browned, 6 to 7 minutes. Stir in the mushrooms and basil, and cook and stir until the basil is wilted and the mushrooms are cooked through and have given up their juices, about 10 minutes.
• Pour in the whole peeled tomatoes, and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring and chopping the tomatoes into pieces with a spoon. Pour in the tomato sauce and stir, crushing any large pieces of tomato left, and bring to a simmer. Let the sauce simmer until slightly thickened and bubbling, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
• Stir the tomato paste into the sauce, and fill the empty tomato paste can with Merlot wine, stirring to dissolve any remaining tomato paste in the can. Pour the Merlot wine into the sauce, and stir well to combine. Bring the sauce back to a simmer, and stir in the salt, pepper, dried oregano, and sugar. Let the sauce simmer until the seasonings are blended and the sauce is heated through, about 3 more minutes.

MAMA PALOMBA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat tomato puree in a large pot over medium-low heat; simmer while prepared the remaining ingredients.
• Heat a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir hot Italian sausage, mild Italian sausage, and ground chuck until browned and cooked through, 10 to 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Remove cooked sausage and chuck with a slotted spoon and transfer to the simmering tomato puree.
• Cook and stir onion and garlic in the same skillet used for browning meat until onions are lightly browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Transfer onion mixture to meat mixture.
• Stir water and tomato paste in the same skillet used for onion mixture over low heat until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes; add to the sauce in the pot. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese, basil, oregano, and parsley over the sauce; stir to combine. Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 3 hours.

MY MAMA IULIUCCI'S "DON'T SKIP A STEP" SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine tomato products in large stock pot or dutch oven.
• Add a 28 ounce can of water and stir.
• Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer.
• Sprinkle with sugar, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, parsley and grated cheese and stir to combine.
• In a frying pan, heat about 1/4" of vegetable oil and fry up your sausage or meatballs until cooked through.
• Add the meat to the simmering sauce, along with any optional meats (recommended) mentioned in ingredients.
• Now, this is an important, not to be left out, step: Add chopped onions and garlic to pan that meat was fried in.
• Do not drain anything before adding onions and garlic-- there should be some drippings/oil left in the pan!
• Fry onions and garlic until tender and aromatic.
• Remove pan from heat.
• Another important step, not to be left out: Add about 1/2 cup water to the pan and swish around, combining the leftover drippings and onion and garlic.
• Pour and scrape it all into the simmering sauce.
• Stir to combine.
• Let simmer for 3 hours or until desired consistency, stirring occasionally.
• I keep mine only half way covered, so it cooks down and gets thick and rich.
• Remove pepperoni, chicken and ribs if used.
• Remove meat from bones of chicken and ribs and add back to sauce in small shreds.
• Discard pepperoni, eat it, or chop it up and add it back to sauce.
• Serve over your favorite pasta and enjoy.