Easy 'Go-To' Spaghetti
A quick and easy version of American-style Meat Sauce with Spaghetti. Casual, yummy, comfort food!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 medium Yellow or Sweet Onions chopped small
- 1 medium Green Pepper seeded and chopped small
- 1 medium Fresh Carrot (optional) rinsed and grated
- 1-2 pinches Red Pepper Flakes (optional)
- 1 pound Ground Pork 80/20
- 1 pound Ground Beef 90/10 or better
- 2 1/2 teaspoons Kosher Salt More or less to taste
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Ground Black Pepper
- 3-4 cloves Fresh Garlic crushed, peeled, and chopped fine
- 1 pound Fresh Mushrooms cleaned and sliced
- 2 28 ounce Marinara Sauce Choose your favorite, but you know mine!! Trader Joe's Tuscano Marinara Sauce or any good quality Marinara Sauce.
- 2 pounds Spaghetti pasta I usually use Trader Joe's or Barilla pasta
Condiments
- Shredded Parmesan Cheese to taste
- Fresh Cracked Pepper to taste
Instructions
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Gather your ingredients, a pasta pot and a thick bottomed saucepot large enough to hold your desired quantity of sauce.
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Fill pasta pot with warm water and set on stove on low heat. Add olive oil to the saucepot.
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Chop onions and garlic. Grate carrot if using.
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Add onions to saucepot with olive oil over medium heat. Add your desired amount of red pepper flakes. [Most of our family enjoy things spicy, so I always go for 2 generous pinches. Use less or none at all, if you must.]
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Chop green pepper and add along with the grated carrot if using. Saute together with onions until onions are translucent and veggies begin to lightly brown. [We had to go without green peppers this week because I didn't notice the typo I sent to Stache on my grocery list text. I got green onions instead.]
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Add both types of meat. Break up into small bite-sized pieces. Add salt and black pepper.
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While meat is browning, clean and thinly slice mushrooms.
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Add prepared mushrooms and garlic to the nearly cooked meat. Cook until meat is done and mushrooms have softened.
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Open Marinara cans and bring pasta water up to a boil.
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Add Marinara to meat and veggies. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat.
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Add a Tablespoon of salt to the boiling pasta water and add pasta. Boil according to package instructions for al dente. [I'm fairly casual about many things, but mushy pasta isn't one of them!]
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At desired doneness, strain pasta immediately through a colander.
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Portion out bowls of pasta topped with meat sauce, there at the stove. Add shredded parmesan cheese and a bit of fresh ground black pepper, as desired. Enjoy!
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