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Quick and easy spaghetti with meat sauce recipe. Watch this recipe to learn how to make perfect meat sauce with spaghetti. Easy weeknight friendly spaghetti and meat sauce that's made completely from scratch. Use ground beef, turkey, pork, chicken or lamb to make this simple spaghetti recipe.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook spaghetti with "meat" sauce using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti with "Meat" Sauce:
- Take 1/2 Onion, chopped
- Get 2 medium Carrots, sliced thin
- Make ready 1 Celery, sliced
- Make ready 1 tsp Italian Seasoning
- Prepare 1 cup Dried Lentils
- Make ready 15 oz can Crushed Tomatoes
- Take 1/2 cup Italian Parsley, chopped
- Prepare 5 medium Fresh Basil Leaves or tsp dried
- Get 1/2 box Spaghetti Noodles
- Make ready 1 cup Cheddar or Colby Jack Cheese, shredded
Cook and stir until meat is brown and vegetables are tender. Spaghetti Meat Sauce is beefy, juicy and so satisfying. It comes together fast so it is perfect for busy weeknights, and it's freezer friendly. Meat sauce has all of the comforting flavors of Spaghetti and Meatballs, or traditional Bolognese but is much easier!
Steps to make Spaghetti with "Meat" Sauce:
- Note: You can use any vegetables you have. You can also change the cheese to Parmesan if desired.
- Add carrots, celery and onion to pan with 2 tbsp water and saute till onions are cooked and slightly brown. Add water tbsp at a time to prevent burning.
- Add tbsp water and italian seasoning with salt and pepper and stir.
- Add Lentils and water enough to cover lentils. Bring to boil and simmer for 35 minutes. Keep an eye on it and add water as needed. Water should be gone at end of 35 minutes.
- Put water in a pot with shake of salt and heat for spaghetti noodles. Add spaghetti when it boils.
- Scoop half lentils into blender and blend for a minute. Pour back into pan and scoop other half into blender and blend that for a minute. Pour back into pan. Some lentils will be whole. That's ok.
- Add crushed tomatoes, basil and parsley. Stir and simmer 15 minutes.
- If desired, add spaghetti to "meat" sauce and toss OR put spaghetti on plate and scoop sauce on top.
- Plate spaghetti, sprinkle with cheese and serve.
- NOTE: If you want a more saucy "meat" sauce you can add another can of crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce. If you want the sauce to be a little more sweet and tomatoey add in and a few squirts of ketchup
It comes together fast so it is perfect for busy weeknights, and it's freezer friendly. Meat sauce has all of the comforting flavors of Spaghetti and Meatballs, or traditional Bolognese but is much easier! Homemade Spaghetti Sauce is so full of flavor and it's easy to make it in large batches for freezing or canning for easy homemade meals that are prepared ahead. Spaghetti and meatballs is such a family favorite, I almost always have frozen spaghetti sauce and meatballs in my freezer. Authentic Italian Style Spaghetti Sauce simmered low and slow and packed with flavor!
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