Grandma Maggio's Spaghetti Sauce

Name: Grandma Maggio's Spaghetti Sauce
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 425 grams tomato sauce; 794 grams whole peeled tomatoes; 118 milliliters chopped fresh basil leaves, or to taste; 473 milliliters sliced fresh mushrooms; 1 teaspoon ground black pepper; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 1 onion, chopped; 2 teaspoons dried oregano; 2 teaspoons salt; 170 grams tomato paste; 59 milliliters white sugar; 1 head whole head garlic, peeled and chopped; 177 milliliters Merlot wine

Grandma Maggio's Spaghetti Sauce is a gluten free and vegan recipe with 8 servings. One portion of this dish contains roughly 4g of protein, 4g of fat, and a total of 154 calories. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a reasonably priced sauce. If you have sugar, tomato paste, basil leaves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 55 minutes.

Instructions

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.

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Mushrooms

Olive Oil

Garlic

Basil

Onion

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Sauce Pan

Pour in the whole peeled tomatoes, and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring and chopping the tomatoes into pieces with a spoon.

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Canned Whole Tomatoes

Tomato

Pour in the tomato sauce and stir, crushing any large pieces of tomato left, and bring to a simmer.

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Tomato Sauce

Tomato

Let the sauce simmer until slightly thickened and bubbling, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.

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Sauce

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.

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Tomato Paste

Wine

Sauce

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.

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Dried Oregano