Grandma's Secret Meat Pasta Sauce

What you'll need

  • 5 Gallon Pot (T95 Engine compressor will work)

  • 12-inch frying pan

  • Glass Jar With Metal lid/ Dedicated grease jar

    • WARNING DO NOT POUR GREASE DOWN YOUR DRAIN, IT WILL CLOG YOUR DRAIN!

  • Heating source.

  • 6 Medium Onions

    • Diced

  • 2 Cloves Garlic

    • Minced

  • 2/3 Cup Olive Oil

  • 12 ounces Tomato Paste

  • 2 x 28 Ounce Cans Diced Tomatoes

  • 2 x 28 Ounce Cans Crushed Tomatoes

  • 40 Ounces Water

  • 3 TABLESPOONS Worcestershire Sauce

  • 3 TABLESPOONS SUGAR

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 3 TABLESPOONS Allspice

  • 2 LBS Ground Turkey

    • Can Substitute beef

What to do

  1. Put olive oil in the bottom of the POT.

  2. Heat POT on MEDIUM-HIGH heat.

  3. Add Onions

  4. Add Garlic

  5. Cook Until Onions are soft (about 5 minutes)

  6. Add Diced Tomatoes

  7. Add Crushed Tomatoes

  8. Add Tomato Paste


  1. Fill one of the 28-ounce tomato cans with water

  2. Pour the water back and forth into the tomato paste can

    1. (This will get all the tomato paste, you can do this with the other cans to get all the tomato goodness)

  3. Add the water from the 28-ounce can


  1. Fill The 12-ounce Tomato Paste can with water

  2. Add the water from the 12-ounce can

  3. Add the Worcestershire sauce

  4. Add the sugar

  5. Stir until well mixed

  6. Bring heat up to HIGH

  7. Stir until sauce starts to boil

    1. CAUTION: Boiling sauce is thick and may splatter

  8. Cover POT

  9. Reduce heat to LOW

  10. Simmer for 1.5 hours

    1. CAUTION: Pasta sauce can burn easily be sure to use LOW heat

    2. To prevent burning, stir sauce every 10 to 15 minutes

      ADDING THE MEAT TO THE POT:

  11. REMEMBER: Let the POT keep simmering while you cook the meat!

  12. FRYING PAN:

  13. Add ground meat to FRYING PAN

  14. Sprinkle meat evenly with salt

  15. Sprinkle meat evenly with allspice

  16. Heat PAN on MEDIUM-HIGH

  17. Stir the meat until no pink remains

  18. Drain fat from the meat into GREASE JAR

  19. Remove PAN from HEAT

  20. Turn off Heat for PAN's burner

  21. CAREFULLY Add the meat to the POT

  22. Stir POT until well blended

  23. Cover POT

  24. Let POT cook for another 15 minutes

  25. Remove POT From heat

  26. Turn off Heat

  27. SERVE with pasta


Servings

About 40 x 1/2 cup servings.


NOTES:

If you like it thicker add 30 ounces of water instead of 40.

This WIll make enough for A LOT of pasta sauce! You can freeze the leftovers and they'll last for weeks (at least)!

TIPS:

Making the pasta at the same time will be tricky so you'll have to play around with the timing.

  • Try to have the water for the pasta boiling WHEN you're adding the meat

    • After you add the meat to the POT you can add the PASTA to another pot of boiling water

    • Pasta usually takes 8 to 10 minutes so when the pasta's done you can drain the pasta and serve the sauce almost the same time!

  • This much sauce will stay hot for a long time after you cook it, especially if you leave the lid on, so you don't have to feel rushed to get the pasta out right away.

  • It might take a few times to get everything to come out together, but don't get discouraged! Make notes on what works and what doesn't, find out what works best for you!

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