When it comes to traditional and comforting dishes, few things can beat a hearty bowl of spaghetti smothered in a rich, flavorful sauce. And while there's no single "best" recipe for grandma's spaghetti sauce, there are certain elements and techniques that can help you achieve that perfect balance of flavors and textures. From selecting the right ingredients to simmering the sauce for the perfect amount of time, this guide will take you through the steps of creating a truly unforgettable spaghetti sauce that will transport you back to your childhood kitchen.
Here are our top 9 tried and tested recipes!
GREAT GRANDMA'S HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE
My great-grandma's recipe for homemade spaghetti sauce is the best! It uses ingredients you probably already have at home! Plus- your house will smell fantastic when the sauce is simmering on your stove!
Provided by Becky Mansfield - Your Modern Family, LLC
Categories Kid Friendly Recipes
Time 5h
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Brown meat and Italian sausage (break it up as you stir it. You may want to heat up a little olive oil (about 2 minutes) before adding the meat...)
- Add chopped onions to the meat mixture and continue cooking. Stir occasionally until onions are softened.
- Next, add your diced tomatoes, tomato paste, and tomato sauce.
- Next, mix in the spices, sugar, and garlic.
- Once your sauce is cooking (bring to a boil), add your wine and water.
- Simmer on low (stir often) for an hour.
- Optional: Let it simmer for an additional 3-4 hours, just to let the flavors combine even more.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 340 calories, Cholesterol 55 milligrams cholesterol, Fat 22g grams fat, Protein 20 grams protein, ServingSize 8, Sodium 1495 grams sodium
GRANDMA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE
This is a recipe my grandma made for years and she never wrote it down until I was learning how to make it. It is a sweet meat sauce. I love it and just wanted to share it with everyone else. Let me know what you think. This recipe makes a lot of sauce. I usually put 4 cups in a resealable plastic bag and freeze for later use.
Provided by Michelle
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Tomato
Time 50m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Cook and stir ground beef and onion in a large pot until beef is no longer pink, about 10 minutes. Drain excess grease.
- Pour tomato sauce and tomato paste into the pot; season with pepper. Stir in tomato puree and ketchup. Add brown sugar, mustard, celery salt, onion salt, and garlic salt, stirring after each addition.
- Simmer sauce over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until flavors combine, 30 to 45 minutes. Sprinkle in Parmesan cheese during the last 5 minutes of cooking.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 397.1 calories, Carbohydrate 35.1 g, Cholesterol 72.6 mg, Fat 19.1 g, Fiber 3.3 g, Protein 23.3 g, SaturatedFat 7.6 g, Sodium 2296.6 mg, Sugar 28.9 g
MY GRANDMA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE RECIPE - (4.5/5)
Provided by corvettemary
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- In large pot simmer chicken in 3-4 quarts of water for about 1 hour. Add water if needed. Remove chicken and set aside. In a separate frying pan, brown hamburger, onions, garlic and sausage until meat is no longer pink. Add to water in chicken stock pot, do not drain grease. Add tomatoes, tomato paste & sauce, mushrooms and seasoning. Simmer for about 45 minutes. Cut chicken off of bones. Discard bones and skin. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and return to sauce pot. Skim off grease and cook down to desired thickness/consistency.
MY GRANDMOTHERS FAMOUS SPAGHETTI SAUCE
This has been passed down from my grandmother to my mother, to me, and now to my children and their families. I never measure ingredients so I will do my best to give you ingredient proportions. Don't rush this one. Let it simmer and cook down for several hours. I use my food processor to do the chopping as there is a lot of it!Freezes great so I double, and sometimes triple, the recipe.
Provided by TXOLDHAM
Categories Sauces
Time P4DT20m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Brown meat in 1 tablespoon olive oil. Drain well. (I rinse my meat after browning to get as much grease off as possible.).
- Chop celery, bell pepper, onions and garlic in food processor or by hand.
- Add remaining olive oil and saute vegetables until tender over medium-high heat. Return meat to the pan.
- Add remaining ingredients and add enough water to make really watery or soupy. It will cook down. Add water as needed. Simmer about 4 to 6 hours until cooks down to proper consistency for sauce.
GRANDMA'S HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE RECIPE
This traditional spaghetti sauce from scratch recipe is so simple and easy that you will never need another! It has been passed down through the generations in my family, and it is a real winner! We've always made it using fresh tomatoes, but you can also use canned.
Provided by Tara Ziegmont
Categories Gluten-free Main Course
Time 4h
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Blend tomatoes, half of onions, celery, garlic, and green pepper in blender to desired level of chunkiness. We like our sauce fairly smooth, so we blend ours for a good long while on the chop setting.
- Transfer blended vegetables to a very large pot (at least 8 quarts). Add spices, tomato paste, mushrooms, and remaining onions. Cook for 3 hours, or until desired consistency is reached.
- Remove bay leaves.
- Preserve as desired. Makes 2 to 3 quarts.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 74 kcal, Carbohydrate 17 g, Protein 3 g, Fat 1 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Sodium 391 mg, Fiber 3 g, Sugar 11 g, UnsaturatedFat 2 g, ServingSize 1 serving
GRANDMA'S ITALIAN SPAGHETTI SAUCE
This is my grandmother's recipe from Italy. It is wonderful. I have gotten rid of all other sauce recipes because this one is so good. It is also wonderful over rice and by itself. I love it because it tastes too good and is very filling so it lasts more than 2 meals.
Provided by Nicole Gray
Categories Sauces
Time 57m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Saute garlic, onion and bell pepper in oil until onion and pepper are translucent.
- Add beef to onion-pepper mix.
- Cook til you no longer see pink; drain well and then return to pot.
- Add tomatoes with juice, paste, chili powder and Worcestershire; mix well.
- Simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add mushrooms; mix well.
- Simmer 10 minutes longer.
- Serve over hot pasta.
- I like angel hair with this sauce--it gives it a unique texture.
- I use Georgio bottled mushrooms, Del Monte Tomatoes, Hunts Paste, Lea& Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, McCormick Chili powder.
- All the rest are fresh ingredients.
- This is an old family recipe.
- Once you taste it, you will never go back to any other sauce.
GRANDMA MAGGIO'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE
This is one that was recited to me out of memory alone, and described as a hand of garlic, etc., though the ingredient quantities should be accurate. I encourage buying the cheapest versions of these ingredients you can find; it will feed an army for about $15 without ruining the taste. You should add more seasonings based on preference. A great vegetarian sauce, and with meatballs...it makes great meatball sandwiches.
Provided by Sarah Garland
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Tomato
Time 55m
Yield 10
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat, and cook and stir the onion and garlic until translucent but not browned, 6 to 7 minutes. Stir in the mushrooms and basil, and cook and stir until the basil is wilted and the mushrooms are cooked through and have given up their juices, about 10 minutes.
- Pour in the whole peeled tomatoes, and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring and chopping the tomatoes into pieces with a spoon. Pour in the tomato sauce and stir, crushing any large pieces of tomato left, and bring to a simmer. Let the sauce simmer until slightly thickened and bubbling, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
- Stir the tomato paste into the sauce, and fill the empty tomato paste can with Merlot wine, stirring to dissolve any remaining tomato paste in the can. Pour the Merlot wine into the sauce, and stir well to combine. Bring the sauce back to a simmer, and stir in the salt, pepper, dried oregano, and sugar. Let the sauce simmer until the seasonings are blended and the sauce is heated through, about 3 more minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 114.4 calories, Carbohydrate 18 g, Fat 3.1 g, Fiber 2.8 g, Protein 3.1 g, SaturatedFat 0.4 g, Sodium 934.9 mg, Sugar 11.6 g
MY GRANDMOTHER'S SPAGHETTI
Provided by Valerie Kraus
Categories Beef Pasta Tomato Sauté Bon Appétit California
Yield 4 to 6 servings (Makes about 8 3/4 cups sauce)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Heat oil in heavy large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and sauté until onion is translucent, about 4 minutes. Add ground beef and cook until brown, breaking up with fork, about 8 minutes. Drain drippings from Dutch oven. Mix parsley, bay leaves and basil into beef and cook 2 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, water, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Simmer until reduced to sauce consistency, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, about 2 hours. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm sauce over medium-low heat before using.)
- Cook spaghetti in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain well. Place spaghetti in serving bowl. Pour half of sauce over. Serve immediately, passing Parmesan cheese separately. (Refrigerate or freeze remaining sauce for another use.)
GREAT GRANDMA'S PASTA SAUCE RECIPE - (4.4/5)
Provided by kayjayjohnson
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a large stockpot, saute garlic until soft and fragrant in 2 tablespoons of olive oil, about 2 minutes. Throw your meat in with the garlic and brown until meat has been thoroughly cooked through, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Pour in the tomato paste, tomato puree, and seasoning, including the fresh basil. Stir to mix well. Fill the empty tomato paste can will water, and pour it in the stockpot. Let mixture simmer, uncovered, for 2 or more hours (the longer the better, but minimum 2 hours), stirring occasionally. Serve hot over fresh pasta.
Tips:
- Use fresh, ripe tomatoes. This will give your sauce the best flavor. If you can't find fresh tomatoes, use canned whole tomatoes that have been packed in tomato juice.
- Don't overcook the sauce. Simmer it gently for at least 30 minutes, but no longer than an hour. Overcooked sauce will lose its flavor and become watery.
- Season the sauce to taste. Add salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste. You can also add a pinch of sugar to balance out the acidity of the tomatoes.
- Let the sauce cool before serving. This will allow the flavors to meld together.
- Serve the sauce over pasta, chicken, or fish. You can also use it as a pizza sauce.
Conclusion:
My Grandma's Spaghetti Sauce is a delicious and versatile recipe that can be used in a variety of dishes. It's easy to make and can be tailored to your own taste preferences. So next time you're looking for a quick and easy meal, give this recipe a try. You won't be disappointed!
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