My Childhood Spaghetti
I wanted to share with you my humble childhood pasta. This was how my mom made it for us when we were young and I still occasionally crave it every once in a while. Loaded with vegetable and served over spaghetti.
Ingredients
- 1 large carrot (peeled & diced)
- 1 celery stick (diced)
- 1 whole yellow onion (diced)
- 3 whole garlic cloves (minced)
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp oil
- 1 lb ground Italian sausage (or ground beef)
- 8 oz button mushrooms (sliced)
- 1 whole zucchini (sliced into half moons)
- 2 (24oz) jars Prego traditional pasta sauce (OR your preference of pasta sauce)
- 3 lbs spaghetti (cooked in salt water)
Instructions
- In a good non stick pan, add in 2 tbsp of oil, the diced carrots, celery, onion, garlic and salt. Saute for 5 minutes or so until the vegetable are slightly brown and tender. Then add in the Italian sausage & cook until you no longer see any pink. Then add in the mushrooms and zucchini. And saute for about 2 minutes. Then add in the tomato sauce. Cook on medium low heat until the zucchini and mushrooms are tender to your liking. Be careful of tomato sauce splatter so keep it on medium low stirring occasionally for even cooking. Once the vegetables are cooked to your liking, the sauce is done. Keep warm as you serve.
- Cook 3 lbs of spaghetti in salt water. Drain and serve with the sauce poured over per plate/portion. Growing up, my mom would just boil a bunch of spaghetti and let us grab however much we wanted onto our plate/bowl. Then we would just ladle the sauce over and mix. You can enjoy it as is or add a little dried chili flakes and or parmesan on top. Enjoy!
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