A homemade meat sauce with spaghetti is a delicious and cozy weeknight meal to prepare. While this sauce is not a traditional Italian recipe, it’s packed with flavor and is easy enough to make any night of the week or special enough for the weekend. Swirl a serving on a plate and watch the family come running to devour this sauce!
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Skip ahead:
00:00 Intro
00:37 Sautéing the onion and pepper
04:39 Adding the meat and tomato paste
05:49 Finishing up the sauce
7:15 Mixing the spaghetti and sauce
08:36 Tasting the meat sauce
INGREDIENTS
– 2 tbsp unsalted butter
– 1 medium onion, minced
– 1 small bell pepper, diced
– 1 tsp salt
– 1/2 tsp black pepper
– 3 cloves garlic, minced
– 2 tsp dried basil
– 1 tsp dried oregano
– 1/4 tsp red chili flakes
– 1 lb ground beef
– 6 oz tomato paste
– 14 oz tomato sauce
– 28 oz diced tomatoes
– 1 lb spaghetti
INSTRUCTIONS
– In a 6-quart stock pot or saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Once the butter is melted, add the onion, bell pepper, salt, and black pepper. Sauté until the onion and pepper are softened and turning translucent, 4-6 minutes.
– Add the minced garlic, dried basil, dried oregano, and red chili flakes. Cook for 30 seconds and add the ground beef. Cook and break the beef into small pieces until it is fully browned, 8-10 minutes. Once the beef is cooked, add the tomato paste. Stir the paste into the mixture and allow the paste the cook until it darkens and starts to coat the bottom of the pan, 6-8 minutes.
– Once the paste has cooked, add the tomato sauce and diced tomatoes. To clean the containers out, use a small amount of water and pour it into the sauce. Stir and bring the sauce to a simmer. Once simmering, cover and cook for 18-20 minutes.
– While the sauce is cooking, prepare the spaghetti according to the package directions to reach al dente stage.
– When the pasta is al dente, turn the sauce to low heat and add the pasta directly to the sauce. Any residual water dripping off the pasta can be added to the sauce. Stir the pasta and sauce to combine and finish cooking the noodles for 2-3 minutes. Serve with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
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30 Comments
That looks so tasty! I do my weekly shopping on Saturdays, but I’ll have to add this one to next week’s menu! BTW-made the ham potato chowder and it was delicious!
Yum, I’m Italian and I will be making it this week
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👍Will have to make this coming week, have green pepper left from roomy making chili
Looks delicious but as an Italian I have to say lets use less garlic….please.
Love you and wonder how you know so much about cooking?
Brought me back to my Moms' spaghetti! (North Dakota in the 70's) Thanks for being here! You are great.
I’m Italian and make this every once in a while. Only difference is instead of butter I use bacon as my first step. I also add mushrooms to it. I believe it’s called Johnny marzetti or American chop suey. It’s a great weeknight meal 🙂
Until recently, I always simmered my sauce for hours, especially if I included sausage links. Now I make a quicker version similar to yours with onion and green pepper, but I always have to have some Italian sausage in it for the fennel flavor, and I've started adding a spoonful of sugar. Sounded weird, but it cuts the acid of the tomatoes.
This looks so delicious and easy too! Can't wait to make it. So hungry for spaghetti and meat sauce now.
I love that you want every drop of goodness. I do the same but use wine to rinse the tomato cans. Couldn’t agree more about fresh Parmesan and not the “sawdust” in the plastic container! (Exactly what I call it too. 😉😆😬) But as always add or omit what you like and make it your own and to your personal tastes!
I always simmer my sauce for hours. Is that not a good thing? I’m going to try this. Looks delicious.
Looks delicious. I also add sliced mushrooms, leek and celery to use up all the veggies in the refrigerator..
I do my sauce just like that! I don’t like the jarred sayce because it’s too sweet.
Hey Kaleb! You are speaking my language, growing up with a family of seven spaghetti with meat sauce was a stapler meal in our household. Mom never used bell peppers in the spaghetti sauce. I discovered that flavor of bell peppers 🫑 as an adult and I fell in love with eating spaghetti and meat sauce all over again.
One thing I would like to say about bell peppers is the yellow bell peppers doesn’t hold up to heat very well because it will spoil quickly. My experience with yellow bell peppers only works well for cold salads dishes.
As always keep slaying these recipes and I will keep sharing the videos. ❤😊
Making this tonight! 💫
I make it the same way but my family likes mushroom and olives, too
I'm getting one of those "helpers" to transfer cutting board to pan ! What are they called?
Looks delicious..thanks
Awesome recipe once again.I always add bay leaves to my sauce.
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I always make my own sauce. Some of those jar sauces are too sweet and too thick. It’s so easy to make sauce and customize it to your taste.
Looks like a good recipe? We're going to add some sauerkraut and mushrooms.
I love how real you are and how good your food is!!! Thank you for all of that!!
Spaghetti for din now, I gotta🍝
I do a similar sauce here in Australia – but I add red wine to the empty tomato tins to wash them out and I also sauté chestnut mushrooms (chopped) when I do the onions and peppers. I also add a bay leaf. I cook mi e for about 2 hours. It makes a great sauce for lasagna too!
This is exactly how my mom made spaghetti when I was growing up. I used to wake up early the next morning to eat the leftovers. It was the best. I still make spaghetti like this. My kids now do also. Yum. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you for including the tip for getting all of the product out of the cans. I'm a senior citizen and grew up in Oklahoma and my mom and grandma would be gobsmacked watching cooking shows today when they just pour out of the cans or bowls without getting every little bit! We were not poor, nor wealthy, but we were taught to rinse the can and scrape the bowl. Waste not want not.
Great tips on how to make my spaghetti even better!! Thank you.
My mom always added tomato paste which gave the sauce a boost of red color. No to orange spaghetti sauce.