Spaghetti Sauce

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A big thanks to Jacqueline Edwards Schuster for this great recipe. I just made a meatless batch for my freezer so I can thaw it out and use it in any way I'd like. It made about 9-10 cups of sauce. I will never buy jarred sauce again. This is just THAT good!

Ingredients

1 29oz can tomato sauce
1 15oz can tomato sauce
1 12 oz can tomato juice
1 12 oz can tomato paste
2 pounds ground turkey
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 tablespoon dehydrated onion pieces
Bay leaves (3 of them)
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:

Brown the ground beef in the garlic, sugar, onion, and Italian seasonings (this gives the turkey a flavor) in a large pot.

Add the paste, sauce, and juice as well as the bay leaves and simmer on low for about 2 hours stirring occasionally.

Switch off the heat, add the Parmesan cheese and stir. Let it sit for about an hour.

Reheat it and then serve over spaghetti noodles

Jacqueline says: Taste the sauce after about ½ hour. You may want to sweeten it with a little more sugar (1/4 cup) or add ½ teaspoon more Italian seasoning. I have been making this so long, I don’t measure the ingredients any more… I do it by taste.

I make it with 2lbs ground turkey and add all the spices while I am browning the meat. That way the flavor attaches itself. You could use ground beef/ turkey combo (I still brown with the spices) or make it meatless. I have done it all ways. It is good over portobello mushrooms, with eggplant, as a spaghetti as use over pasta or lasagna. Remember that it freezes very well. I freeze it in a rectangular container overnight then take the frozen block and seal-a-meal it  to prevent freezer burn.

To turn the sauce into lasagna:

12 oz shredded mozzarella cheese (I buy the 2% cheese)
12 oz shredded cheddar cheese (2%)

Combine the two cheeses in a bowl

In a 9 x 13 pan, layer cooked lasagna noodles (OR AS A TIME SAVER- buy Barilla no boil lasagna noodles), sauce, and cheese (one at a time) at least two layers deep. If using all the sauce, buy a disposable heavy duty lasagna pan and layer it 3 layers of each
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