/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17945347
For quick spaghetti I chop fresh veg, usually celery, onion, garlic, and mushrooms, cook them down in olive oil, make meatballs with 2/3 of my meat and add the other 1/3 to sauce, then add a cheap can of spaghetti sauce
The canned spaghetti sauce is already cooked down, the tomatoes have seeds removed and are pureed, which I prefer to large chunks, and mildly seasoned
The fresh veg and handmade meatballs give the sauce it's flavor, and the cheap canned sauce saves time on slow cooking just to get the tomatoes right

>>17494856
unironically picrel
Super cheap, mild flavor, and instead of preserved veg you chop your own fresh, cook in a bit of oil until al dente, and add this sauce as final step
The fresh veg elevates it above every other premade sauce, basically this is just tomatoes that have already been cooked down and had basic herbs added in and it only takes like 10 minutes more than heating up a jar of ragu