Look no further for a delicious and simple Homemade Spaghetti Sauce that starts with vegetable juice and has plenty of flavors and spices throughout the sauce. Top your favorite pasta dishes with this from spaghetti to pasta casseroles.
This Homemade Spaghetti Sauce is more than a marinera sauce as it has so much seasoned ground beef throughout. The sauce thickens on the stove top and makes your home smell yummy while it is cooking.
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Ingredients
- vegetable juice - like V-8 or a store brand
- ground beef
- Italian seasonings
- salt/pepper/garlic powder
- minced dried onions
- tomato paste - store brand is fine
- tomato sauce - store brand is fine
Ground beef
The meat of choice in this sauce is ground beef. A lot of ground beef. Sausage can be used if it is your preference, but ground beef really fits this recipe and I do recommend it. There is 3 pounds of ground beef that is used. However, if you prefer to use two, that works as well. This spaghetti sauce recipe does make a large batch so the hamburger is used well.
Cooking on the stove top
The ground beef needs to be cooked completely in a frying pan before placing it in the pot with the other sauce ingredients. The salt, pepper, garlic powder will be cooked with the ground beef.
The sauce will be cooked in a separate pot. All the other ingredients will be added to it and it will cook long and slow for at least 3 hours. The long cooking time will encourage all the flavors to blend together perfectly and the Italian seasonings to be highlighted.
Vegetable juice
So why the vegetable juice? Well, the vegetable juice as opposed to just the tomato juice, has a variety of flavors the tomato juice does not have. I have tried both, I recommend using the vegetable juice. Just believe me on this one.
This homemade spaghetti sauce is the perfect amount of tomato flavor, ground beef and Italian seasoning. The sauce is great on tortellini, spaghetti or in a lasagna!
What to serve as a side with this sauce
Storage
Store leftover sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. This sauce freezes great. If desired, place in an airtight freezer container in the freezer for up to 2 months.
📖 Recipe
Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
Print PinEquipment
- 1 large cooking pot
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground hamburger cooked and grease drained
- 64 oz vegetable juice like V-8
- 6 oz tomato paste
- 8 oz tomato sauce
- 1 ½ T Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoon dried onions
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Brown the ground beef, adding in the salt, pepper and garlic powder, until no longer pink. Drain the grease.
- Add vegetable juice, dried onions, tomato sauce, tomato paste, Italian seasoning to a large cooking pot. Stir in cooked ground beef.
- Simmer over medium/low heat for 3 hours, stirring occasionally. The burner can be turned down to low after 1 hour. The sauce will thicken as it cooks.
- Serve with your favorite pasta or as sauce for lasagna.
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