
Tomato-meat sauce
Description
Homemade sauce is simple and quick to prepare. This recipe makes a large quantity of tomato-meat sauce. I should warn you right away: the tomato-meat sauce takes a long time to cook—about 4 hours. But it's absolutely worth it. Of course, you can make it faster, but then it will be fast food, not a truly rich, flavorful, and aromatic divine tomato-meat sauce. Using 900 grams of ground meat and a generous amount of other ingredients yields a large number of servings, so if you need to feed an entire army a delicious dish, then my simple tomato-meat sauce recipe was made just for you ;) Serve it chilled or at room temperature.
Instructions
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Step 1

Finely chop the celery, onion, garlic, chili pepper, and slice the mushrooms.
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Step 2

Put everything into a bowl.
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Step 3

Then, in a deep skillet or saucepan, sauté the chopped vegetables over medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
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Step 4

Then add the tomatoes in their own juice to the vegetables. Before adding them to the pan, pour them into a plate and mash well with your hands.
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Step 5

Mix everything thoroughly.
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Step 6

Then add tomato paste and tomato sauce, and a little water.
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Step 7

Add all the spices, salt, and pepper.
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Step 8

Simmer the tomato sauce over low heat, and in the meantime, sauté the seasoned (salted and peppered) ground meat in another skillet over medium heat.
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Step 9

Sauté the ground meat, breaking it apart with a spatula to prevent large clumps from forming. Cook the meat until a golden-brown crust appears.
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Step 10

Next, immerse the minced meat in the tomato mixture.
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Step 11

Add bay leaf :)
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Step 12

Mix everything and let the dish simmer over low heat for 3 hours. Stir the dish every 30 minutes.
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Step 13

After three hours, about half of the liquid will have evaporated, and all the ingredients will be infused with a beautiful tomato color.
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Step 14

At the very end, remove the bay leaf from the tomato-meat sauce and place it on the boiled spaghetti or pasta. Good luck!