Love this recipe because it is so easy to make and nicely low calorie. 483 calories per serving.

My children love meat sauce. If you use canned chopped tomatoes, you can make meat sauce easily. It can be used on pasta, in gratin and many other things. It can be frozen too.The key is to add a piece of curry roux. Children will love this too. Recipe by notyet

Quick and easy recipe! You can use any kind of pasta, it doesn't have to be spaghetti ;)

Before I would add ketchup and Worcestershire sauce as the finishing touch, but I wanted to make it more simply to enjoy the flavor of the ingredients.Allow to cool for a moment and the flavor will settle down and become really delicious. For serving 8. Recipe by Babette29

Its summertime and I wanted to make a lentil dinner. Usually I make Lentil Stew but its too hot for that. So I wanted to do something else. I found this recipe in my Forks Over Knives cookbook called Spaghetti with Lentil Ragu. This "meat" sauce is based on that recipe. The recipe calls for diced tomatoes but I chose a can of crushed tomatoes to make a sauce. I also put the lentils through a blender to make the lentils more ground meat like . Topping it with cheddar cheese really finished it off perfectly. I hope you'll like it as much as my family did.

I love to use rigatoni with meat sauce because it picks up the sauce so well! Also, I like to change my sauce ingredients depending on what I have around at the time, and what I'm in the mood for, as far as vegetables & toppings go. One thing I almost always add to my sauce is the brown sugar. The kids and I both enjoy the sweetness in the sauce. You can make this into a cheesy sauce by adding parmesan and/or other cheeses and even cream. You can make this into a savory & spicy sauce by adding crushed red pepper and/or other hot peppers. You can add vegetables to the sauce to make a "garden medley." And, you can even make this with vegan meat! Of course sauce will always get better the longer it simmers with the ingredients. This is made quick for dinner. However, if your heart is truly in making the sauce you can continue to simmer it for a few hours or even slow cook it in a crockpot. #pasta #pastasauce #meatsauce #spaghettisauce #pastanight #italiannight

I married an Italian jersey boy so I had to learn to make an acceptable gravy for dinner.

I had dinner at an Italian restaurant last night with friends and it was delicious, so I wanted to make some fresh pasta for my son. I had just received some fresh tomatoes as a gift, and I thought they'd be perfect in a sauce, and so I made this meat sauce. My son happily ate it up.Knead the pasta dough well.It's best to let the pasta dough rest.Drain off the moisture from the ripe tomatoes before cooking the sauce. Recipe by Takashi mama