Perfect Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

By CheeseDiva

Ingredients

• 2 2 2 pounds grass-fed ground beef (or lamb, or venison, or whatev)
• 1 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
• 1 1 shallot, minced
• 6 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 1 tablespoon organic, dried oregano
• 1/2 1/2 teaspoon organic, dried rosemary
• 2 2 bay leaves
• 4 40 pounds fresh or frozen tomatoes (or about 40 ounces organic tomato sauce)
• 2 2 tablespoons organic tomato paste
• 5 3 tablespoons rapadura or 3 tablespoons maple syrup (to taste)
• to Sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste

Preparation

Step 1

Step One: Brown the meat in a large Dutch oven. Remove to a plate and set aside. Hello, meat:

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Step Two: Into the same dutch oven, add the tablespoons of olive oil and the minced shallot and garlic.

Step Three: Saute the shallot and garlic until soft and fragrant (about five minutes). Then, add in the oregano

Step Four: Puree the fresh or frozen tomatoes until smooth. Again, totally used the Vitamix for this. Another option would be to blanch, peel, and then add the tomatoes in whole (thus preventing the tomato-skin from rolling up).

Step Five: Lastly, add in the tomato paste, salt and pepper, and rapadura or maple syrup to taste. It’s important that all of these ingredients be added to taste so take the time to taste your sauce and season accordingly. You may like a sweeter sauce. Or a more tart sauce. Or a more peppery sauce. It’s your sauce – make it taste like it!