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Easy Sugar-Free Tomato Meat Sauce

This is a simple recipe that can be made quickly with minimal ingredients, and can also be tweaked and adapted to your taste.

Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Canadian, Italian
Keyword meat sauce, pasta
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 4 people
Author Naomi

Ingredients

  • 1 large onion chopped
  • 2 cloves fresh garlic crushed
  • 1 lb lean ground beef
  • 1 can diced tomatoes (1 can = 28oz or 796mL)
  • 1 can tomato paste (1 can = 5.5oz or 156mL)
  • 1 tsp dried oregano leaves (or 1 Tbsp fresh, chopped)
  • 1 tsp dried basil leaves (or 1 Tbsp. fresh, chopped)
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 1 medium carrot whole or grated
  • 1/2 tsp chili flakes (optional)

Instructions

  1. In a medium sized saucepan, sauté the onion and garlic until soft. Crumble in the ground beef and fry until brown. Drain & discard the fat in the garbage.

  2. Add the remaining ingredients, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes. If using a whole carrot, you can discard the carrot or chop it up and add it back to the sauce at this point.

  3. Serve hot over pasta, spaghetti squash or as desired.

Recipe Notes

Carrot is added to this recipe to reduce the acidity of the tomatoes without adding sugar.

If you want another option for this, you can add 1 Tbsp of honey to this recipe.