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The Best Italian Sausage Meat Sauce
The Best Italian Sausage Meat Sauce
I love me a good meat sauce; whether it’s ground beef or in this case, Italian sausage. Once you try this sauce, there will be no reason to buy jarred pasta sauce again. This meat sauce is obviously great over any pasta of your liking; mine being linguine; but is also a great base for lasagna and even pizza.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb pork Italian sausage
- 1 small yellow onion
- 1 head garlic minced
- 8 oz crimini mushrooms sliced; optional
- 1/2 cup tomato paste
- 2 lbs roma tomatoes diced
- 1/4 cup fresh oregano chopped
- 1/2 cup Italian basil chopped
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp crushed red pepper optional
- 1 lb linguine prepared according to box directions
- parmesan cheese shredded
Instructions
- Brown your Italian sausage in olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat for 8 minutes. Remove the Italian sausage from the pan.
- Add in the onions, garlic, and optional mushrooms. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Stir in the tomato paste. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add in the diced tomatoes, oregano, basil, salt, and optional crushed red pepper. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.
- Stir in the Italian sausage.
- Cover and simmer over medium low heat for 10 minutes.
