Tomato sauce with ground beef
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Total time: 2 hr 45 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 2 hr 30 min • Serves: 18 • Difficulty: Easy
This red sauce is extremely versatile: It’s fabulous over pasta or veggie noodles, but also great with polenta, baked potatoes, or eggs.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
4 spray(s)
Olive oil
2 tsp
Onion
2 large, thinly sliced
Garlic
4 clove(s), minced, or to taste
Canned whole peeled tomatoes
70 oz, with basil, coarsely mashed or crushed into chunks
Tomato paste
6 oz
Fresh basil
5 leaf/leaves, or to taste, plus extra for garnish
Table salt
1 tsp, or to taste
Red pepper flakes
½ tsp, or to taste
Sugar
¼ tsp
Uncooked 90% lean ground beef
1 pound(s)
Instructions
1
Coat a large heavy pot with cooking spray and warm over medium heat; add oil. When oil is hot, add onions; cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about 10 to 12 minutes. Add garlic; cook, stirring a few times, about 1 minute. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, basil, salt, red pepper flakes, and sugar; stir and bring to a boil, scraping down sides and bottom of pot.
2
Reduce heat to low, partially cover pot and cook for one hour, scraping bottom and sides of pot halfway through cooking.
3
Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet, brown beef over medium-high heat, breaking up clumps with a spatula or wooden spoon as it cooks, about 7 to 10 minutes; set aside.
4
After sauce cooks for 1 hour, stir beef into pot, lifting it out of skillet with a slotted spoon so any excess fat stays in skillet. Cook sauce for 1 hour more, scraping down sides and bottom of pot occasionally.
5
Serving size: about 1/2 cup
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