Spaghetti Sauce With Italian Sausage
- 10 lbs tomatoes, ripe
- 4 lbs Italian sausage
- 1 lb mushroom
- 2 green peppers
- 1 large onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 18 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 12 teaspoon oregano
- 12 teaspoon dried basil
- Peel tomatoes and add to large pot.
- This is easily done by dropping them into a pot of boiling water for 5 minutes then plunging them into ice water for another 5 minutes.
- The peels will come off easily.
- Be careful not to lose the juice while peeling.
- Chop 1 green pepper and 1 onion (peeled) and add to tomatoes.
- Add 1/2 of the mushrooms, whole.
- Add salt, sugar and other spices.
- Bring to boil and simmer for 1/2 hour, stirring often to prevent scorching.
- Cut 1/4 of the sausage into pieces.
- In separate pan, add 1/2 of the olive oil and brown the sausage.
- Add sausage, including the fat, to the simmering vegetables.
- Simmer for 1 1/2 hours, stir often.
- Cut remaining sausage and olive oil into 3 inch sections and brown in pan.
- Add to sauce.
- You can add as much or as little of the fat back into the sauce.
- The amount of fat you have depends on the sausage you use.
- Simmer another 10 minutes and serve over your favorite pasta.
- Sauce can easily scorch on the bottom of the pot, so it is important to simmer on low/medium heat and stir often.
- Hamburger, meat balls, chicken or turkey sausage can be substituted for the Italian sausage, or you can skip the meet and add the olive oil directly to the sauce.
- You can also add almost any vegetable you want.
- Leftovers can be frozen.
- In the off season, you can use canned whole, peeled tomatoes.
tomatoes, italian sausage, mushroom, green peppers, onion, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, salt, sugar, oregano, basil
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/spaghetti-sauce-with-italian-sausage-247407 (may not work)