Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Recipe

I would have to say that spaghetti is my comfort food. Not only that it calms me and makes me smile silly while reminiscing my childhood, it also makes good leftovers that I don’t get sick of. (Well, unless I have to eat it for a week straight, then sorry spaghetti, no more.)

Anyway, my spaghetti with meat sauce recipe will hopefully make you feel warm and fuzzy inside too. (I remember the spaghetti I had from grade school wasn’t all that tasty ‘ bland sauce and the spaghetti pasta was always broken in pieces, which was disappointing because I couldn’t slurp it like Lady in Lady and the Tramp!)

Back to the spaghetti recipe, I know that I’m cheating by using pre-made spaghetti sauce, but I’m also adding fresh ingredients to compensate for it. So the spaghetti sauce is still cooked over the stove, not in the microwave. There are also other ingredients such as dried parsley and red pepper flakes that you can add to this recipe as well. But I would say that this spaghetti recipe lays the foundation for my spaghetti comfort food. (I don’t want to slurp my spaghetti like Lady anymore, but I sure don’t want bland sauce or broken noodles!)

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

Yield: 6 servings

• 3 medium tomatoes, chopped
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 lb spaghetti pasta
• 1 jar (1 lb 10 oz/737g) Prego Fresh Mushroom spaghetti sauce, or any kind you like
• salt & black pepper
• olive oil

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
2. Salt the water and add a drizzle of oil. Add pasta. (Adding oil prevents the pasta from sticking after it’s been drained.)
3. Cook the pasta to al dente ‘ about 4 minutes. Drain pasta and set aside.
4. Heat a skillet over medium high heat. Drizzle a bit of olive oil.
5. Add in ground beef. Crumble it as it browns, cook for 8-10 minutes total.
6. Once the beef is done cooking, drain the juice. Set aside.
7. Heat a separate large pot over medium high heat. Grease the pot with few drizzles of olive oil.
8. Sautee the garlic for 2 minutes.
9. Add in onions and tomatoes with the garlic in the pot. Cook for about 15-20 minutes.
10. When the tomatoes and onions become softened, pour in the Prego spaghetti sauce.
11. Stir in the cooked ground beef into the pot as well.
12. Cook for another 15 minutes.
13. Stir in basil. Cook for another 5-10 minutes, or when the basil is softened and the sauce thickens.
14. Season with salt and pepper.
15. Serve the meat sauce over the spaghetti. Top it off with some parmesan cheese if you like.

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