Italian Meat Sauce

This is an awesome meat sauce! Our family cooks this in large quanities and freezes it.

• Ready In: 2 hrs 25 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 16 cups

Ingredients

• 1  lb ground beef
• 1  lb sausage
• 2  large onions (finely chopped)
• 1 -12  ounce tomato paste
• 3 -16  ounces crushed tomatoes
• 5  teaspoons basil
• 5  teaspoons oregano
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
• 1  teaspoon black pepper
• 2  cups water

Directions

1. Cook ground beef, sausage together in large pot. Use a potato masher to break up the meat into fine pieces. Drain the fat into a skillet, cook onions in fat. Drain fat and return onions to meat mixture.
2. Add tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, basil, oregano, crushed red pepper, black pepper, and water. Simmer on stove for two hours or till the sauce reduces,
3. Serve with pasta, ravioli, etc -- .