Italian Turkey Sausage Spaghetti Sauce
This is such a tasty pork free sauce! It really goes well with whole grain pasta. It is exactly the right amount of spicy and exactly the right amount of rich and thick.
Ingredients
Method
- Before beginning, you may want to measure and combine all of your dry spices and seasonings into a single bowl or ramekin so you can easily add them into the sauce all at once.
- Remove sausage from the casing and cook over medium heat in the bottom of a large pot. This is not a fatty meat, so you’ll need to add about 2 tablespoons olive oil to the bottom of the pan.
- When it’s brown, add the chopped onion. Cook until tender.
- Add the garlic. Cook about 5 minutes longer.
- Add the stewed tomatoes with the juice (break the tomatoes up or chop them up).
- Add the tomato sauce and tomato paste. Stir in the salt, black pepper, brown sugar or honey, oregano, parsley, basil, sage, and bay leaf.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for at least 1 hour, stirring regularly. The longer it simmers, the more the spices have a chance to infuse the sauce.
- After about an hour, taste it and see if it needs more sugar, or more salt, or a touch more oregano. Let your tongue guide you. Add a little bit at a time, give it a few minutes to blend in with the flavors, then taste it again. (A good way to taste is to dip a bit of bread in it.)
Nutrition
Notes
Makes about 2 quarts of sauce, or about 8 healthy servings.
If you are avoiding pork, make sure that the sausage casings are also pork free. They are often made with pork products. The safest way is to just buy Kosher in this case.
Whole grain pastas are not all alike. Be sure to be choosy, or make your own.
High in vitamin A and vitamin C.
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