On busy weeknights when you need to get dinner on the table lightning-fast, this 7-ingredient meat sauce with a short 30-minute simmer is a serious time saver.
My mom's homemade meat sauce was a fixture on our dinner table growing up, and it's the same recipe I brought up my Smudge on (pasta with sauce is always a winner with kids!).
But as much as I crave the slow-simmered sauce of my childhood studded with bits of carrot, celery, and mushroom and reduced with red wine, it's usually a weekend project I look forward to when I've got 3+ hours to spare.
On busy weeknights or when I just don't want to spend a lot of time, I've been turning to this super simple meat sauce made with 7 basic ingredients.
It simmers for just 30 minutes, swaps the medley of fresh aromatics for garlic-infused olive oil, and relies more on technique than time to deliver a rich, meaty flavor and velvety texture.
If a super simple weeknight dinner that will please the whole family and takes minimal effort to prepare sounds good to you, this is the one.
Enjoy!
Heidi
