Oddly enough, I've never made homemade spaghetti sauce. I love Classico sauces, so I usually just add meat and a ton of veggies to them.
I found this recipe on Pinterest and decided to use it as my base. I made some changes, mostly adding a million vegetables that were on their last legs. For some reason I love green peppers and mushrooms in my pasta sauce.
I was a little bit sad when I went down to give it a stir and it was soupy. Maybe it's because I added too many veggies? Maybe I didn't drain the tomatoes enough? I'm sure it will taste fine, but does anyone have any tricks to thicken spaghetti sauce?
I hate to be a penny pincher here, but a bottle of sauce its $3.49 max. By the time you add meat and veggies you're likely looking at about $10 and ready in 30 mins max.
If I do a rough tally of my sauce from last night:
Tomato sauce = 2 x $1.49
Tomato Paste = 2 x $0.79
Diced tomatoes = 2 x $0.99
Veggies = ~$5.00
Meat = $4.99
Just that right there is almost $17.00, plus the prep time, plus the 8 hour cooking time.
Tell me again why people make their own sauce? Enlighten me, please.
6 comments:
easy, cook it in the oven WITHOUT the lid, I put gazillion veggies too, and I use garden tomatoes it works fine...but you can thicken it by putting it in the oven at 300F for an hour or add tomato paste or cornstarch as a LAST resort.
Good luck, I make 4 batches a year for my family.
MFO
Try making it on the stove. The water will evaporate!
It's the crockpot. It makes everything like soup. I think it is the condensation. Maybe if you add a can of tomato paste at the end it might thicken up.
I never drain my tomatoes and always add tomato paste...And I actually find slow cooker works fine for me. That said, I do cook down the ground beef & veggies on the stove first so that there's not much liquid there by the time it goes into the crock pot.
I suspect it's one of those things that you have to fiddle with until you get the recipe the way you like it.
And the reason why would be that when you do get the recipe the way you like it, it blows bottled sauce out of the water. :)
Funny you posted this...I just made some sauce as well - I blended the shit out of celery, carrots, onion, garlic and mushrooms. Added it to plain old canned tomatoes and spiced it up with thyme, basil, salt and olive oil.
I can't stop eating it....
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