Basic Tomato Sauce

Good basic tomato sauce. Use this as a base for lasagna sauce. Just add 1# ground sirloin.

Category: Marinades and Sauces

Cuisine: Italian

Ready in 3 hours
by isabellak

Ingredients

1 can Redpack plum tomatoes in puree pureed in blender

1 can San Marzano tomatoes pureed in blender

1 can tomato paste

2 cans Redpack tomato sauce

2 cloves garlic pureed

1 medium onion chopped

1/2 pound beef

1 pork chop

salt ~~amp pepper

5 basil leaves

1 teaspoon oregano

1/4 cup olive oil


Directions

In large dutch oven, heat oil to medium/hot, sear beef and pork. Remover and set aside. Saute onion unbtil translucent, add garlic and sweat. Add pureed tomatoes, tomato sauce and paste. Return beef and pork pieces to pot. Season with salt and pepper, add oregano and basil leaves. Add fried meatballs and simmer about two hours. Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 1442 Calories; 113g Fat (70.1% calories from fat); 71g Protein; 38g Carbohydrate; 8g Dietary Fiber; 226mg Cholesterol; 1225mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 9 1/2 Lean Meat; 7 Vegetable; 16 1/2 Fat. Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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