This homemade Beef Spaghetti Sauce is simple to make but has incredible flavor. It's the perfect meaty sauce to hold up to any pasta shape. Freezes well!
In a large pot, on medium heat, brown and crumble ground beef along with the onions and green pepper.
Season with salt & pepper.
Drain excess grease.
Put drained beef back into the pot. Add in diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Give it all a good stir.
Keeping heat on medium.
Then add in grape jelly, Parmesan cheese, minced garlic, Italian seasoning and dried basil.
Stir then cover and allow mixture to simmer gently for at least 30 minutes. Then serve.
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Notes
This is a very meaty pasta sauce. If you prefer more sauce than meat, then you could scale down the beef to one pound. You can use sausage, ground turkey or ground pork.
And, if you have it on hand, instead of the dried basil, the original recipe suggested using 12 leaves of fresh basil, cut into ribbons, and added in 5 minutes before serving.