Old World Italian Spaghetti Sauce

"This is a great old world Family recipe. Its also great with italian sausage,or meatballs. Just stir often while cooking when using meats."
 
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Ready In:
3hrs 25mins
Ingredients:
16
Serves:
12-14
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a large stockpot on low-med heat add your olive oil and saute your onions for about 4 minutes,then add your crushed garlic,cook for 2 minutes longer. Then add your water,and tomato products. Be sure to mix everything very well.Add in your spices,and cheese. cook for 2 1/2 hours covered.Then add in your wine, and cook 30 minutes longer. Sauce will be thin on first day.Also if you use meat it will alter thickness.The second day this turns into a nice thick sauce.

Questions & Replies

  1. I have been making my own spaghetti sauce for 30 years ... and I have NEVER, ever added water!! It's counter-productive! You're cooking it down to thicken it, NOT thin it out so you can cook that same water OUT of the sauce ....
     
  2. Has anyone halved or quartered this recipe? Serves 12-14? That's a lot of sauce.
     
  3. What kind of red wine was used for your recipe?
     
  4. How much meat do I cook with this?
     
  5. I tried this tonight, and it was just the sauce I've been searching for! Thank you!!!
     
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Reviews

  1. The aroma that filled our kitchen today was tantalizing! This robust sauce certainly was worth the wait. This is different than any other sauces that we've tried...for us it was very "fruity" in flavor. I'm not sure if it was the combination of herbs or the brand of tomatoes - all in all it was extremely delicious and very hearty. Ours was not at any point thin and coated the pasta perfectly. Your "old world" description is appropriate but we would even venture to call it "out of this world". Thanks FarahC!
     
  2. IT'S NOT GRAVEY,IT'S SAUCE!!!!!!!
     
  3. Looks like a great recipe. One thing that frosts me is people that alter the recipe and then give it a low rating. If you change the recipe as written and don't like it, then don't leave a review.
     
  4. I love this sauce. I add more onions, green pepper, and garlic. I add a little more spices and bay leaves to make it my own. I also add turkey crumbles. Been making sauce for over 5 years and family loves it!
     
  5. adding sugar doesn't make it old world because italian's think it's disgusting that we put sugar in our gravy.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I did not add sugar
     
  2. I added bay leaves and used 1/2 water 1/2 chicken stock mixture.
     
  3. I only added 1 tsp. sugar & 3/4 cups onions. It was delicious.
     
  4. I used cooking wine in place of dry drinking wine.
     
  5. Less acidic tomato paste, less water, way more spice, still horrible.
     

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