BEEF AND EGGPLANT SAUCE FOR PASTA

Beef and Eggplant Sauce for Pasta image

This eggplant sauce is my family's favorite. I had a bumper crop of eggplant so have made up my own recipes using eggplant. Serve over your favorite pasta.

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Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Tomato

Time 44m

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 13

Ingredients

olive oil, divided
2 small eggplants, diced with skin
1 large red onion, chopped
1 (5 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained, or to taste
4 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
6 Roma tomatoes, sliced
2 pounds ground beef
2 cups pasta sauce (such as Hunt's® Traditional)
1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
1 (14 ounce) can pizza sauce
¼ cup white sugar, or more to taste
1 (1.5 ounce) envelope dry spaghetti sauce mix
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Steps:

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Saute eggplants, red onion, mushrooms, and garlic until softened, 8 to 10 minutes.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute tomatoes until juicy and tender, about 6 minutes. Transfer tomatoes to the pot.
Cook and stir ground beef in the same skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to the pot; add pasta sauce, tomato sauce, pizza sauce, sugar, spaghetti sauce mix, salt, and pepper. Stir and simmer until flavors are well blended, about 10 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 220.8 calories, Carbohydrate 17.8 g, Cholesterol 35.4 mg, Fat 11.6 g, Fiber 3.7 g, Protein 11.8 g, SaturatedFat 4 g, Sodium 706 mg, Sugar 9.9 g