I need a homemade spaghetti sauce for my daughters b day?!
Answers: We are having about 25 adults and children at the party. I would like to just throw it all in my big slow cooker and leave it all day, but i don't know what spices to use. I know the basics tomatoes, sauce, and paste, ground beef and Italian sausage. But what else am i supposed to use? She really wants it to be homemade and that's a task for me with four little ones and a b-day party to put together. No short cuts please, it needs to be authentic and completely homemade.
Here's a good recipe: http://www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/reci...
It's best to use a recipe specifically designed for the slow cooker, as this one is. That's because liquid doesn't evaporate out of the slow cooker the way it does on the stove top.
This doesn't use a slow cooker (although it looks like you can if you read the reviews), but it does simmer for about 3 hours on the stove, and it's quite delicious! Serves 24.
Spaghetti Sauce II
4 onion, chopped
12 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup olive oil
4 (28 ounce) cans whole peeled tomatoes
8 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
1/2 cup dried basil
1/4 cup dried oregano
8 bay leaves
1/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 cup red wine
4 pounds Italian sausage (optional)
Heat olive oil in a large saucepan or Dutch oven. Saute onions and garlic until tender, 2-3 minutes. Add remaining ingredients (except sausage links) and simmer over low heat for 3 hours.
With one hour cooking time remaining, cook and brown sausages in a skillet. When browned, place in sauce and continue to simmer. Remove bay leaves before serving. Serve over hot cooked noodles, with sausages on the side.
INGREDIENTS
1 chopped onion
5 cloves garlic, chopped
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 (28 ounce) cans peeled ground tomatoes in paste
1 (6 ounce) can Italian-style tomato paste
7 cups water
3 tablespoons Italian seasoning
2 tablespoons dried basil
1 teaspoon white sugar
1/2 cup red wine
1 pinch crushed red pepper
DIRECTIONS
In large saucepan over medium heat, saute onion and garlic in olive oil until soft. Stir in tomatoes, tomato paste, water, Italian seasoning, basil, sugar, wine, and crushed red pepper. Reduce heat to low and simmer 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Serve.
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Look it up on the internet. I know its easy to make.
25 adults you need 25 cans of whole tomatos, hunts is good. Pour all to blender with 10 stalks of carrots, 10 stalks of celery and 20 onions. 5 stalks of onions, 5 thymes, chopped. 8 tablespoons of cayanne pepper and 4 cups of red wine. blended and added to saucepan till thicken.
Don't forget the red wine. Probably a whole bottle for that quantity, but you'll have to judge according to how much liquid you want to put in - you don't want soup! And don't worry about the alcohol for kids - it will boil off straight away.
A couple of beef stock cubes or a little bit of beef gravy powder will add a meatier taste. Pepper is probably best kept to a minimum if the children are small, as are most spices, but if they're old enough to hack it, a good pinch of pepper will make it more interesting.
You shouldn't really need much by way of spices, but a pinch of cumin and some Worcestershire sauce will help. Perhaps you could do a small scale trial run tonight to see what you think.
Any recipe that calls for sauce to be simmered on the stove can be simmered in your crockpot although for 25 adults I don't know if a crockpot will be big enough. You have been given several good recipes.