Spaghetti with Sauce (Meatballs optional).

Spaghetti with Sauce (Meatballs optional)

• Cooking oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• One rose of garlic, sliced
• 3 red peppers, chopped
• 1 green pepper, chopped
• 32 ounces of stewed plum tomatos, diced
• 16 ounces of tomato sauce
• 12 ounces tomato paste
• 2 teaspoons crushed dried oregano
• 1-1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper
• 2 teaspoons white sugar
• 4 dried bay leaves
• 1 pound package uncooked Spaghetti or Linguini
• Optional: 1 beaten egg
• Optional: 1 pound ground beef (alternate: ground TENDERLOIN yum)
• Optional: 1/2 cup crushed matzos

Place some cooking oil in the bottom of a large pot, and cook the onion, the peppers, and garlic until the onions start to become translucent.

Stir in the tomatos, tomato sauce, tomato paste, oregano, and black pepper.

Stir in 1 cup water, bring to boil, reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Add more water as needed during cooking.

While sauce is cooking (if making meatballs), combine egg, chushed matzos, a 1/4 cup of the sauce, and the ground meat. Wet hands, and form meat mixture into balls, about 1 inch accross (about 30). Put some cooking oil in a frying pan, and slowly brown over a low-medium heat.

After the sauce has been cooking for at least 1-1/2 hours, stir in the white sugar, bay leaves and another cup of water. Then, place the meatballs into the sauce for the remaining 30 minutes. Remove the bay leaves.

While waiting for the meatballs and sauce to finish cooking up, prepare the pasta as per the package directions.

Serves: 6

Preparation time: 150 minutes