Slow Simmered Meat Sauce with Ground Turkey and Italian Sausage
Servings 10 - 12
Equipment
- Large Dutch oven
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb of ground turkey
- 2 turkey Italian sausages removed from the casing
- 1 small yellow onion diced
- 3 small carrots diced
- 6 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp fennel seeds crushed
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- ½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes more if you want it extra spicy
- Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste
- 1 cup of chicken broth
- 1 6-oz can of tomato paste
- 2 15-oz cans of tomato sauce
- 1 29-oz can of crushed tomatoes
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp fresh basil leaves chopped
- 8 oz Spaghetti cooked per instructions (I used whole wheat)
- Parmesan Cheese grated
- Parsley chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
- Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the ground turkey, turkey Italian sausage removed from casings, and the onion. Cook, stirring often to crumble the beef and sausage, for 4-5 minutes.
- Add the carrots, garlic, dried basil, crushed fennel seeds, dried oregano, crushed red pepper flakes, sea salt, and freshly cracked pepper, to taste.
- Add the chicken stock, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, and tomato sauce to the turkey mixture as well as the sugar. Stir until well combined. Cover with a lid and place into the oven for 3-4 hours.
- Remove the Dutch oven from the oven. Skim the surface for any fat. Add the chopped basil then taste and re-season if needed.
- Cook the spaghetti noodles per instructions, drain. Serve the sauce on top of the spaghetti then top with Parmesan and fresh parsley if desired.