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spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage in skillet

Grace's Best Spaghetti Sauce

This is the best spaghetti sauce I’ve ever tasted – hands down! Forget the store-bought jars of sauce; after making this homemade spaghetti sauce you’ll never buy a jar of spaghetti sauce again! Control the ingredients in your food and reap the flavourful rewards of a 40 year old recipe, first shared here at Bluestem Gables.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients
  

  • 2 pounds lean ground beef
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 onion
  • 1/2 green pepper, chopped
  • 1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
  • 3/4 cup celery, chopped fine
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 large tin of Hunt's Italian Tomato Sauce
  • 1 tin of tomato soup
  • 3/4 cup ketchup
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp seasoning salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp dry mustard
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp Italian seasoning

Method
 

  1. In a Dutch oven or large skillet, fry ground beef, onions, garlic, green pepper, and celery in oil. Add mushrooms.
  2. Add tomato sauce, soup and ketchup.
  3. Add seasonings.
  4. Simmer 30 minutes and stir often so that it does not stick.
  5. Serve with pasta and perhaps a salad or garlic bread and enjoy!