ground beef and sausage spaghetti sauce

Prep Time: 60 Minutes

Cook Time: 120 Minutes

Ready In: 180 Minutes

Servings: 8

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Ingredients:

1 (26 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce

2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce

1 red bell pepper (small to medium size)

1 green bell pepper (small to medium)

1 medium onion

3 -4 cloves garlic (to your liking)

3 -4 shallots

fresh parsley (don't be afraid to use some)

1 dash dry basil

sugar

salt

cracked black pepper

1 (4 ounce) can mushrooms

1 -1 1/4 lb ground beef

1 lb italian sweet sausage

Directions:

1. Start by emptying all sauces into pot.
2. Cut green and red peppers into small chunks.
3. Add to sauce.
4. Add mushrooms.
5. Add a couple tablespoons sugar to cut down acid level.
6. Add pre-cooked sausage.
7. I usually cook them in a crock pot the day before to remove majority of the fat.
8. Cut into 1/2 chunks.
9. Next dice onion.
10. Chop both garlic and shallotts.
11. Heat olive oil in a pan and saute garlic,onion and shallotts being careful not to burn them and cook till tender.
12. Add salt and cracked black pepper to taste along with chopped parsley.
13. Add to sauce.
14. In the same pan add groung beef and brown.
15. Add to sauce and cook on low heat 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
16. Serve over the pasta of your choice.
17. I prefer vermicelli over spaghetti.
18. This may seem like it takes a long time to cook but I was taught good things come to those wait.

By RecipeOfHealth.com