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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Peel carrots, garlic, and onion. | 2. Chop onion. | 3. Carrots need to be finely chopped or grated. | 4. Mash garlic cloves into salt using large knife blade to make a paste. | 5. Heat large pot on stove with olive oil, caramelize carrots and onions, after the carrots and onions are VERY caramelized and smelling sweet, add garlic, add this last as it can burn easily. | 6. *If using meat in the recipe cook meat while vegetables are caramelizing. | 7. In a separate large bowl pour all crushed tomatoes in puree, and all tomato paste, add in all seasonings. | 8. Swish water through all tomato cans, puree and paste getting out as much of the tomato as possible. | 9. Mix tomatoes, water, and seasonings well. Add to caramelized veggies in pot. Add meat if using meat. Bring to a boil. | 10. Turn heat as low as possible and cover and simmer. Stir often scraping sides and bottom of pot. Simmer 30 minutes to an hour for a thinner spaghetti sauce, or simmer 2 or more hours to make a thick marinara sauce good for dipping bread sticks or Lasagna or manicotti. | 11. Make lots as it freezes well. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
olive oil	4	tablespoons		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0
carrot	1			52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
onion	2			128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
garlic clove	8		roasted	-	-	-	-
salt	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
tomato puree	3	cans	crushed	937.08	221.4468	40.689	5.1786
tomato paste	3	cans		418.2	96.441	22.031999999999996	2.397
water	1	can		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
oregano	2	tablespoons		15.9	4.1352	0.54	0.2568
parsley	2	tablespoons		2.736	0.4811	0.2257	0.06
basil	2	tablespoons	sweet	1.219	0.1404	0.16699999999999998	0.0339
spaghetti sauce mix ingredient	4	envelopes		-	-	-	-
salt pepper				-	-	-	-
beef	2		skinned ground	1060.8024	0.0	209.1685	24.3894

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.