12 Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

You can buy jars of spaghetti sauce for convenience and some brands are pretty good, but nothing beats a long simmering, homemade sauce that you make from scratch. This week’s Recipe Hit List features a dozen different recipes that I’ve bookmarked from around the ‘net, some are pretty basic while others promise to match the flavor of an Italian grandmother’s secret recipe. Enjoy!

Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

*Note: Descriptions below are quotes from the recipe sites

Recipe For Ultimate Spaghetti Sauce By bellalimento.com

1. Ultimate Spaghetti Sauce: (as seen in picture) This is a heavy sauce and goes best with pastas such as spaghetti, linguini, or penne (it would overwhelm angel hair or the like). If you don’t want to add the sausages, just leave them out. I like the flavor that they give to the sauce. Recipe from bell’ alimento.
2. Three-Meat Sauce Recipe: This authentic Italian spaghetti sauce recipe is a longtime family favorite. Very hearty with lots of meat and a zippy flavor, it’s wonderful over a plateful of your favorite pasta. Recipe from Taste Of Home.
3. Red Sauce with Meats: One of the secrets to its rich flavor is cooking the sausages in the sauce for several hours. But, Rachael Ray taught me a great shortcut: stir in beef broth if you don’t have the time for that. Works in a pinch. Recipe from Life As Mom.
4. Gail’s Italian Spaghetti Sauce: This spaghetti sauce is really good and easy. I adapted it a bit and used the crock pot. I actually tripled the recipe so I would have “on purpose” leftovers. Recipe from One Crazy Cookie.
5. Spaghetti with Meat Sauce: My recipe for traditional meat sauce. You will find all of the traditional flavors like garlic, oregano, basil and tomato, but I prefer to use Italian sausage because it gives the sauce that little extra kick. Recipe from Life’s Ambrosia.
6. Alice Jo’s Spaghetti Sauce: Serve with spaghetti or your favorite pasta. Recipe from Paula Deen.
7. Spaghetti In Spicy Tuna Sauce: I’ve doctored the classic recipe to my American-girl-living-in-Italy-who-misses-Mexican-food needs and added the Chili pepper to make a Tuna Arrabbiata sauce. Recipe from Chow.
8. Zappa Family Spaghetti Sauce: Recipe from The New York Times.
9. How To Make (and Can) Spaghetti Sauce In Bulk: Recipe from How To Cook Like Your Grandmother.
10. Ann’s Spaghetti Sauce: It’s a good, easy multi-purpose sauce that you can use for spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, or other baked pasta dishes, and you can cook it all day in the slow cooker or in a couple hours on the stove. From Andrea’s Recipes.
11. My Perfect Spaghetti Bolognese: I love pasta in many guises, but when it comes to ultimate Comfort Pasta, there is nothing that compares to a spaghetti bolognese. By spaghetti bolognese, I mean spaghetti topped with a rich, ground-meat and tomato based sauce. Recipe from Just Hungry.
12. 15-Minute Tomato Sauce. Really.: So here it is messieurs-dames, my super easy tomato sauce you can do in less then fifteen minutes, and with no special tools except a knife, a pot, a pan, and your own handy hands. No fancy ingredients either, but for delicious tomatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper, oh, yes, and a bit of garlic if you like that kind of thing. Really. It is that easy. Recipe from Chez Pim.

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