Beef And Eggplant Sauce For Pasta

• olive oil, divided
• 2 small eggplants, diced with skin
• 1 large red onion, chopped
• 1 (5 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained, or to taste
• 4 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
• 6 Roma tomatoes, sliced
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 2 cups pasta sauce (such as Hunt's(R) Traditional)
• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (14 ounce) can pizza sauce
• 1/4 cup white sugar, or more to taste
• 1 (1.5 ounce) envelope dry spaghetti sauce mix
• salt and ground black pepper to taste

1. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Saute eggplants, red onion, mushrooms, and garlic until softened, 8 to 10 minutes.
2. Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute tomatoes until juicy and tender, about 6 minutes. Transfer tomatoes to the pot.
3. Cook and stir ground beef in the same skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to the pot; add pasta sauce, tomato sauce, pizza sauce, sugar, spaghetti sauce mix, salt, and pepper. Stir and simmer until flavors are well blended, about 10 minutes.

olive oil, eggplants, red onion, mushrooms, garlic, tomatoes, ground beef, pasta sauce, tomato sauce, pizza sauce, white sugar, salt

Taken from www.allrecipes.com/recipe/261565/beef-and-eggplant-sauce-for-pasta/ (may not work)