Quick Meals With Ground Beef-spaghetti sauce

Quick Meals With Ground Beef- spaghetti sauce

I love pasta, and my husband makes THE best spaghetti sauce I have ever tasted. Â It makes quite a large batch, and takes a while to prepare, so he makes it on the weekend, and I put it up in smaller portions and freeze them for quick ground beef meals during the week. Making food in quantity and freezing it, or prepping batches of vegetables for use during the week, can save you a lot of time when you are in a rush.

Ingredients are as follows:

2 whole red peppers (roasted and roughly chopped)
2 bulbs of garlic (roasted and mashed)
3/4 to 1 lb (454 gr) lean ground beef
1/2 lb (227 gr) Italian sausages (we use 3 mild ones)
1 large or 2 medium onions (roughly chopped)
2-28 oz ( 796 ml) tins of tomatoes (we use whole and smash them)
2 -10oz tins mushrooms
1 tin tomato paste
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp dried oregano
3 bay leaves
2 tsp sugar

He starts by roasting the red peppers on the barbeque until the skins are blackened, then he peels the skins off and chops up the peppers. Meanwhile, he adds a bit of olive oil to the garlic bulbs (after chopping the tops off) and roasts them in the oven at 350F for 25 minutes. (Both of these steps can be done the day before, btw.). When done, squeeze the garlic out of the bulbs.

Remove the sausage meat from the casings and fry in a frying pan or wok. Drain off the fat. Put the beef in a large dutch oven or heavy pot with 2 tsp oil and brown over medium heat. Add the worcestershire sauce and 1 tablespoon oregano. When the meat is brown, add the chopped onions and the crumbled sausage meat. Stir.

Cook until the onions are soft, then add the rest of the ingredients. Â Reduce the heat to low, and cook, stirring about every ten minutes. He lets it cook for 3-4 hours. You can cook it for only 30 minutes, but it seems to get better and more flavourful the longer you cook it.