G-FREE FOODIE
This is my mother's Traditional Meat Sauce recipe, which she learned to make from her grandmother!
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The ingredients for the sauce are pretty simple, so it's important that they're good quality. Choose canned tomato products with fresh, bright flavor - look for tomatoes from Italy or California. Choose sausage that you like the flavor of when it's served by itself.
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Sometimes I use a combination of hot and sweet sausages, especially if I'm making a double batch of sauce.
You can definitely use different ground meats, or finely chopped prosciutto or mortadella, or add in some leftover cooked beef or pork - that would be a very Italian-making-Sunday-sauce move. My mother (and I) often add in a shallot if we have one, and substitute dried herbs for the fresh ones if we need to.
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Homemade spaghetti sauce and meat sauce are the same thing. That's because most Italian families have one go-to meat sauce recipe, and one Marinara-style recipe, which has no meat.