My Favorite Doctored Jar Spaghetti Sauce Food

ENHANCE THAT JAR OF SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter with olive oil in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir mushrooms in butter mixture until softened, 2 to 3 minutes. Add 1/4 cup red wine; bring to a simmer, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook until the mushrooms are very dark and shrunken in size, about 20 minutes.
• Heat a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir ground beef, yellow onion, diced tomatoes, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, and garlic together until the beef is completely browned, about 10 minutes; season with oregano, basil, and rosemary. Stir 3/4 cup red wine and tomato paste into the beef mixture. Pour spaghetti sauce into the pot; stir. Return mixture to a simmer and continue cooking until the flavors blend, 10 to 30 minutes.

DOCTORED UP SPAGHETTI SAUCE (FROM A JAR)

Steps:

• Prepare the veggies by dicing the onion and pepper and mincing the garlic cloves.
• Heat a skillet over medium heat and add the olive oil, ground beef, and veggies, and 1 teaspoon of salt.
• Sauté until the meat is fully browned and the veggies are soft. (about 7-10 min)
• Drain the grease from the meat/veggie mixture and return everything to the pan.
• Add in the spaghetti sauce, drained diced tomatoes, tomato paste, and another 1/2 teaspoon of salt, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning.
• Stir everything together, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
• After the 20 minutes add in the parmesan cheese. Stir until melted.
• Serve over pasta or let cool and refrigerate until ready to use.

DOCTORED PASTA SAUCE -- TOMATO

Steps:

• Chop onions and garlic.
• Saute onions and garlic in olive oil until browned .
• Mix everything together in a deep nonstick pot.
• Bring to boil ( use no more than medium heat) stirring often.
• Turn down low and simmer at least 30 minutes -- stirring often -- you can simmer prepared, cooked, meatballs in the sauce too.-- it is easy to make your own meatballs. The sauce with thicken up as you cook and the alcohol will cook off.
• Serve over your favorite pasta.

BETTER THAN A JAR SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Brown ground beef and onion and drain.
• Add zucchini and peppers to ground beef and cook for about 2 minutes stirring well.
• Add wine to ground beef mixture and simmer for another 2 minutes, stir well.
• Add rest of ingredients to hamburger mixture.
• Simmer for 1-2 hours.
• Serve on penne pasta or spaghetti noodles.
• This can also be made in the crock pot. Cook the first three steps on the stove and add to the crock pot when completed. Add all other ingredients to crock pot, cover and cook for 6-8 hours.