Mama's Spaghetti Sauce With Italian Sausage

Chocolatl's Note:

From Dom DeLuise. This can be actually be served without pasta. Some recommended pastas are ziti, rigatoni, ravioli, and angel hair. Use hot or sweet sausages, or a combination, your choice. Add a couple more mushrooms if you like them.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 ½ lbs Italian sausage
• ¼ cup hot water
• 10 fresh mushrooms , sliced
• 1 carrot , cut in half
• 1 onion , minced
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 (28 ounce) cans ready-cut peeled tomatoes
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 cup dry red wine
• 3 tablespoons fresh parsley , chopped
• 1 teaspoon basil
• ½ teaspoon oregano
• fresh ground black pepper

Directions:

1. Place sausage in a skillet. Add hot water, cover, and cook for 10 minutes.
2. Remove sausages and separate links if necessary. Discard drippings.
3. In a large Dutch Oven, saute mushrooms, carrot and onion just until al dente.
4. Add sausages.
5. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer 1 hour, or until thickened, stirring occasionally.
6. Serve over pasta, or by itself with hot crusty bread.

Reviews

[P_D]

Very nice sauce. I followed instructions as listed except for removing sausage from casings to cook. This turned out lovely, I'm so happy I tried this. Thanks for sharing this recipe. Made for Kittencalskitchen Forum European Tag Game.

[Chef #570804 Halifax Liz]

Excellent recipe which will go in my files for sure. Thanks for submitting. Great balance of flavors.