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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Fry beef and pork in 1/4 cup of olive oil in a large saucepot. | 2. Remove meats as they brown and add another 1/4 cup oil to the juices in the pan. | 3. Saute the onion, garlic, and 2 pinches each of the seasonings until the onion is transparent. | 4. Stir in the tomato paste and cook, stirring, until the paste melts into the oil. This is called "Italian roux". | 5. Stir in an extra couple of pinches of the seasonings. Add the tomatoes and blend. | 6. Fill the two tomato cans with water and add water until the sauce is as thick as you like it. Remember the sauce is going to cook down. | 7. Let the sauce come to a boil and add salt and pepper and an additional 2 pinches of seasonings. | 8. Return the meat to the pan and simmer, uncovered, for 2 hours. Stir every 15 minutes or so using a wooden spoon. | 9. Brown the sausages in some olive oil and add to sauce with sugar to taste. Simmer another hour. | 10. Make meatballs and either fry in oil or bake in oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Add to sauce. | 11. Cook for an additional hour. Add water as it cooks if you think it needs it, but you should have a sauce that doesn't separate on the plate. | 12. Remove meats and let sauce settle for a few minutes until fat rises to the top. Skim as much fat as possible from the sauce. The less fat it contains, the better the sauce. | 13. This sauce freezes beautifully. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
italian sausage	1	lb	sweet	1569.4315	2.9484	64.637	142.1107
meatball	1	recipe		-	-	-	-
beef	1/2			265.2006	0.0	52.2921	6.0973
pork	1/2			852.768	0.0	31.5479	79.5388
olive oil	1/2	cup		179.01	0.0	0.0	20.25
onion	1		chopped	44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
garlic clove	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
basil			dried	-	-	-	-
mint			dried	-	-	-	-
red pepper flake				-	-	-	-
sugar	1/2	tablespoon		27.531	6.8862	0.0	0.0
tomato paste	1	can		139.4	32.147	7.343999999999999	0.799
tomato	2	cans	ground	124.1379	27.5262	6.4768	1.0795
water	2	cans		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt black pepper			ground	-	-	-	-
beef	1	lb	ground	898.1139999999999	0.0	88.0877	57.7424
pork	1/4	lb	ground	852.768	0.0	31.5479	79.5388
italian breadcrumb	1	cup	seasoned	-	-	-	-
egg	2			143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
milk	1/2	cup		74.42	5.8316	3.843	3.9894
parsley	1/2	cup		10.8	1.899	0.8909999999999999	0.237
parmesan cheese	1/4	cup	grated	74.0	8.0	8.0	1.0
olive oil	1 1/2	1/2		179.01	0.0	0.0	20.25
garlic clove	1		minced	4.47	0.9918	0.1908	0.015

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