Top Secret Spaghetti Sauce!

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Ohhh friends. You’re going to need to sit down for this one.

Because I am sharing with you highly confidential, top secret, coveted information.

My family’s SUPER SECRET SPAGHETTI SAUCE!

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery

This sauce is truly one of a kind. It is from scratch. It is dinner party staple. It is requested for special occasions and week nights alike. And it is gourmet enough to serve to even the most impressive guests.

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery

Ladies and gentlemen…this sauce takes six hours to cook. And believe me when I say…it is worth every gosh darn minute!

It is not gluten free. It is not vegan. It is not Specific Carb Diet friendly. But it is the comfiest of comfort food. So do with that what you will.

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery

And one quick note: as with all recipes, the dish only turns out as good as the ingredients that go into it. SO that means: buy quality, organic ingredients.

For example: the tomato paste and canned tomatoes are the stars of the show. So spend the extra couple bucks on the tomato products imported from Italy. I know it sounds crazy, but there is truly a difference in taste, texture and flavor. Get fresh spices. Top quality meat. Fresh spaghetti, if possible. This is one of those dishes you want the best ingredients for!

SO withtout further ado….

Here’s What You Need! (Makes 10-12 servings)

Sauce:
2 large onions, chopped
1/3 cup olive oil
10 garlic cloves, minced
2 cans (12 oz each) tomato paste (I like Cento brand)
1 (28 oz can) crushed or diced tomatoes (I like San Marzano tomatoes from Italy)
11 cups water
5 bay leaves
salt and pepper to taste
1 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp dried basil
2 Tbsp dried oregano

Meatballs:
1 lb. 90/10 chuck or sirloin, ground
1 lb. Italian Sausage (sweet italian)
1 cup parmesean cheese
1 cup Italian bread crumbs
2 cloves garlic
1 large egg

Tools:
Extra Large stock pot or Le Creuset
Good Chef’s knife
Measuring spoons and cups
Large mixing bowl
Can Opener

Directions:
Saute the onions and garlic in oil. Add paste, tomatoes, water and spices. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. (Covered with a lid)

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery
Before adding the meatballs. (It nearly overflowed!!)

Meanwhile, make the meatballs by hand-mixing all the ingredients in a large bowl. Tightly pack the meatballs so they don’t fall apart in the sauce. Should make 24 LARGE meatballs.

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery

Add the meatballs after the hard boil stops.

Cook 6-8 hours. Stir gently every 10-15 minutes. Add more seasonings. (I always add more salt and pepper to taste, and Italian seasonings.)

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery
I like to skim this top layer of grease.

Lastly, I like to skim off the dark red layer of grease that rises to the top from the sausage. It just looks more pleasing to the eye. Don’t put it down the drain though! Store it in a glass container, and then discard once it cools and hardens!

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery
Post-skim!

Serve over fresh pasta, and spinkle with fresh parmesean cheese!

(Other serving ideas: over a baked potato. On a hoagie-style bun. With an egg poached in the sauce, like “Eggs in Hell.” Over zucchini noodles.)

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery
Look at those meatballs!

OK – this sauce is one for the books. Yes, it takes a long time. Yes, it takes lots of love. But dannnnnng is it worth it!

You can truly tell the difference between a “from scratch” sauce, and a “from a jar” sauce. There is simply no comparison.

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery
Flavortown

The depth of flavors is just incredible. The garlic has infused every little bit of tomato. The meatballs have become melt-in-your-mouth. And the intensity of the tomato is bar-none.

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery

Every time my mom has a dinner party, this is the dish she always makes. She gets some fresh pasta from the mom-and-pop Italian shop, and then this incredible sauce.

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery
Splurge for the FRESH pasta!

So do yourself a favor. Take a day — plan to be home all day to tend to this delicious sauce — clean the house, work from home, give yourself a mani-pedi. But just make this sauce. Freeze half. Give some away. I promise you will have found a new favorite meal.

And sorry mom, for spilling the secret recipe!!!

SECRET’S OUT!!

Top Secret Family Recipe Spaghetti Sauce! By: BeautyBeyondBones #italian #food #cooking #pasta #yum #edrecovery

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186 thoughts on “Top Secret Spaghetti Sauce!”

  3. I love homemade sauce. My Mom used to use that Cento paste for her own. I can make my own sauce. It’s unique. Nothing crazy. Just olive oil, diced tomatoes, sliced jalapeños and onions and whatever seasoning I add. Excellent Caralyn!

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    2. Looks delicious! To bring it to the next level I start with sausage links cut In half and fry them to they are brown not cooked through in olive oil. Then take them out and fry the onions and garlic in the oil and sausage grease. Then add my sausage back in and continue with the recipie. So good with the depth of flavor sausage adds.

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      2. That’s just the way I make it…Sunday Gravy style! I also throw in the meatballs and spare ribs.

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  4. OM Gosh! Of the many wonderful recipes you have shared with your readers, this one sounds the most fantastic! Not sure I could pull this one off. So time consuming but worth it I can tell by the photos. I would skim that layer off too, Caralyn. Your mother may be in a bad mood next time you visit! 😬🤭❤️

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    1. Thanks so much John! Oh yes it is MOST delicious!! Hahahah yeah she’s going to have some choice words for me I’m sure! Hahah jk jk I totally got her blessing. We actually made it together over FaceTime!! 🙂 thanks for stopping by! Hugs and love xox

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    1. Hi John! Haha oh yes – a mouth watering recipe indeed! Thanks for stopping by! Hugs and love xox

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  7. Now that’s what I’m talking about!!! 😁This is like my grandmother’s old school original and the best tomato sauce; she always made it constantly and we still couldn’t get enough of it! How much will you charge to make it by the kettle and ship? I’m serious!!! Yea, I hear ya you’re too busy! Another Ohioan Paul Newman that I met many years ago was really a Midwesterner with a flair for making Italian sauce and gourmet dishes, and as we know what sprung out of that was Newman’s Own. So, I figure with the way things are I’ll still be making up my own OK stuff now and then, but actually being in a hurry I like Newman’s commercial sauces which I just had a last jar of it that I put to good use the other day with tricolor rotini! Imported fresh grated Parmesan cheese and Italian bread and I was going for broke or until I got stuffed whichever came first; and you can guess how that went I’m sure! Thanks for making me hungry anyway!
    🤣🐕😁😜😂😂😉👍 🇺🇸 🙏 🙏 😇 😇

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    1. Haha thanks so much Lawrence! Oh wow that sounds like an absolutely delectable meal!! Hugs and love xox

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      1. Hey if I put my mind to it I’ll give your recipe a whirl and I’m sure it will work out fine; how can it not? Just that grandmothers and moms, wives or even a sister I think give it that special something the TLC touch which is mostly in my head but it works for me, LOL! Years back this kind of thing was a regular staple dinner with so many Italian relatives around and even an uncle that owned a restaurant but sadly for me their times came to be with our Lord and I feel like I’m more and more disconnected from so much good more all the time. Have to make due now and just grit my teeth and use those memories along with feeling good about making a home-cooked meal and then sitting down to really enjoy, and reminisce a bit too! You’re right and thanks it was a yummy meal and my dog I think she either thinks Italian or actually likes my cooking because she wanted seconds too! 🤣🐕😁👍 🇺🇸 No kidding let me know if you get the notion to try a small batch sale; whatever it would require, a hundred or two hundred whatever! As a lady I dated years ago from the Mid-West a native Irish, English and Swedish PhD medical doctor with family roots that went back to the 1700’s, as she put it, a sauce like that is the mother’s milk to an Italian! I actually made up a batch for her on a visit which she really enjoyed as much as me, actually more, LOL! I mean the sauce; me, she thought was a character! 🤣 👍

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      9. I’m sure it will be that too, so just have to give it some thought and prayer. I’ve been thinking on it. Might have to sleep on it a bit more too! ✝️ 🤗 👍

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      1. Surprised when you cook this good no one has wifed you up. Haha.

        My grandma would make one pot dishes on the fire while we cut wood for the whole reservation.

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      3. Yeah. I was surprised she’d bring a cooler and have three meals out of a Dutch oven. Everyone loves the mesquite wood here. Natives use the Juniper. Wood cutting if more of a harvest of the old ones that fall naturally. Clearing the floor for the young plants. My step dad was a firefighter most of the year and then took three months off to do this for his reservation. Apaches. Kind of wild but, reverent.

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      5. Oh. That was the other thing. I think, umm. Italy. Has the volcanic soil similar to that beach in Iceland. I’ll have to look again to confirm. The difference in tomatoes is nutrients. Ah. I do remember correctly. Cento uses San Marzano tomatoes from volcanic soil.

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      7. My grandpa tried to farm the san marzano in Mexico after a few years of core sampling all over the continent. I think, he had one successful crop in ten years. Then he sold it. Haha. I believe it was just, to try it. Very umm. Curious. Like, “Ha I did it. I’ll go do something else .”

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      9. I think food is a language. It finds the feeling and expresses it. I’m glad after everything you’ve overcome you can still speak this language.

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      11. Look at how long it took to get that statement. Ugh. Haha. It’s why I get nothing doing. 😂 What is that, 3 seconds on camera? Haha

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      13. It is nice to talk with you even when we do not agree. I definitely, try to understand your perspective.

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    1. hahah me too C — there’s something so incredibly comforting about spaghetti!! 🙂 yum! sure thing! Hugs and love xox

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  29. Oh, I love to make long-simmering meat sauce using ground beef and Italian sausage but have never made meatballs. A class of wine whilst cooking is pleasant, too! ☺️
    Love your recipe… and it looks so delicious!! Wow!

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    1. Isn’t it so great?! And I’m with ya! A glass of vino is good for the soul! Thank you! Hugs and love xox

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  31. I always had this idea that when I had a place of my own I’d make spaghetti sauce over the stove for hours on end sampling as I went. The reality is I’m content with cheapest sauce at the time I go to the grocery store and pour it into a plastic container right before I drain the pasta in my Israeli made colander. Though I’m half Swedish and the food tends to be bland. I’ll have to try this at least once.

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    1. Oh that’s awesome! Thanks friend! I didnt know you were half Swedish! That’s so cool! I visited about 8 years ago and it was such a beautiful place!!! Hugs and love xox

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  32. This sounds so yummy, I’m planning it for dinner this week. I believe I have seen this brand of tomatoes at our local Nob Hill grocers. Thank you for sharing! 🥰

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    1. thank you! oh yes – this brand is great — but truly any brand of italian San Marzano tomatoes will do! It really makes a difference! happy cooking! Hugs and love xox

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    1. Thank you so much! Haha yeah – it was more of a “set it and forget it” type of thing. But it certainly made my apartment smell good! And totally worth it! Hugs and love xox

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  34. Gosh, I’m so ready to eat this! The wonderful thing about your recipe is it has very little sugar. Jarred sauces have so much. Can’t wait to try it! Cheers.

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  35. Mmmmm, I love making a slowly-simmered meat sauce for spaghetti though I have never tried making meatballs. I will have to try making your formerly-secret recipe! Have you ever used hot Italian sausage? Adds a real kick!

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    1. Isn’t it so great! It really is true, great things take time!! Ooh really?! I haven’t but I bet it would be terrific in this!! Thanks for stopping by, Steve! Happy cooking! Hugs and love xox

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  41. This looks amazing, thank you so much for sharing!!! Instead of making the meatballs can I just brown the Italian sausage and ground beef and add it to the sauce?😋

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    1. Thank you so much Paige! it was really a hit! yes – that is definitely an option! it will change the texture a bit, but it will taste just as good! 🙂 Hugs and love xox

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  42. Oh, this looks SO GOOD! I sent the ingredients and recipe to my wife. She already makes a mean spaghetti, but this certainly deserves a try!!!!!! Thanks for sharing that TOP SECRET HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FOR YOUR EYES ONLY recipe with us!

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    1. Thank you Galen!! Oh my gosh – this one is requested ALL THE TIME! hahahah too funny!! So glad you stopped by! Hugs and love xox

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  46. If cook the meat separate and add it at the end. How long do I cook the sauce for. Don’t want to cook the sauce for 8hrs

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    1. Hi Carmen, thank you for your question – i haven’t tried it cooking the meat separately, or cooking it quicker. My guess is that if you are cooking the meat separately, you could add less water and cook it for just a few hours until it reduces, but I have not tried this, and the depth of flavor comes from cooking everything together low and slow, and letting the meat’s juices penetrate the tomatoes. But that would be my suggestion if you don’t want to cook it for eight hours. Hugs and love xox

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      1. Hi, not sure if you covered this already. What is the secret to thickening the sauce? Does it need to sit for some time after cooking? Also, are you simmering with or without a lid?

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  48. Speaking from a raised Italian mother, oregano is one spice that does not go in tomato sauce. Basil is a must!!! Everyone loves my sauce?

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