Italian Meat Sauce Mix
- 1 pound hot italian sausages
- 4 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon instant minced garlic
- 1 medium carrots peeled
- 2 tablespoons basil
- 1/4 teaspoon thyme
- 1 package broccoli florets
- 1 can tomato paste
- 2 pounds ground beef, lean
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 package cauliflower florets
- 1 can tomato puree (passata)
- 8 cups water
- Peel and crumble the sausage.
- In a large kettle or dutch oven, brown the Italian sausage, ground beef, salt, pepper, and minced garlic.
- Drain.
- Put onion and carrot in blender.
- Cover with water and finely chop.
- Drain off water and add onion and carrot to meat in the kettle.
- Continue cooking with meat mixture.
- Stir in basil, chili powder, thyme, cauliflower and broccoli.
- Add tomato puree, tomato paste and 8 cups water.
- Bring to a boil.
- Cover and simmer 8 hours.
- Skim off fat.
- Put into eight or nine 1 pint containers.
- Seal and label containers Italian Meat Sauce Mix.
salt, garlic, carrots, basil, thyme, broccoli florets, tomato paste, ground beef, black pepper, chili powder, cauliflower, tomato puree, water
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/italian-meat-sauce-mix-42165 (may not work)