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Simple spaghetti sauce

Yield: 2 Quarts
Time: Several hours, mostly simmering

(Last modified: 20240802.1040: 20240731.0818: )

  1. Sauté in water, approximately 5 minutes, stopping before onions become translucent:
    • ½ red pepper
    • 1 onion
    • 1 medium carrot, shredded
    • 1 clove garlic
    • Add ½ way through sauté 4oz mini bella mushroomes, chopped finely
  2. Add:
    • 1t basil
    • 1t oregano
    • 1t mint
    • pinch red pepper flakes
    • 2 cans 14.5oz (no salt added) diced tomatoes ("muir glen", which weren't san marino species)
    • ⅓ "chipps pink" apple, peeled & chopped
    • 1T tomato paste
    • 1 medium "on the vine" tomato
    • ¼C white wine (sauv blanc)
    • 4t nutritional yeast
  3. Simmer an hour, adding ½C water

Non-vegan version took about 1.5 hours from start to finish:
  1. Change some ingredients:
    • 1.6oz ground beef - can probably cut this in half
    • a bit of honey
    • some turmeric
    • some celery, cut finely
    • 2 cloves garlic
    • no apple (none available at the time)
    • ¾C red wine
  2. Pressure cook 8 minutes
  3. Add:
    • 1T nutrional yeast
    • some water
  4. Simmer about an hour to reduce sauce

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