Beef and Eggplant Sauce for Pasta

This eggplant sauce is my family's favorite. I had a bumper crop of eggplant so have made up my own recipes using eggplant. Serve over your favorite pasta.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 29 mins
• Total Time: 44 mins
• Calories: 221 Calories

Ingredients

• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1 (14 ounce) can pizza sauce
• 1 large red onion, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
• ¼ cup white sugar, or more to taste
• olive oil, divided
• 2 small eggplants, diced with skin
• 1 (5 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained, or to taste
• 6 Roma tomatoes, sliced
• 2 cups pasta sauce (such as Hunt's® Traditional)
• 1 (1.5 ounce) envelope dry spaghetti sauce mix

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Saute eggplants, red onion, mushrooms, and garlic until softened, 8 to 10 minutes.

Step 2

Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute tomatoes until juicy and tender, about 6 minutes. Transfer tomatoes to the pot.

Step 3

Cook and stir ground beef in the same skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to the pot; add pasta sauce, tomato sauce, pizza sauce, sugar, spaghetti sauce mix, salt, and pepper. Stir and simmer until flavors are well blended, about 10 minutes.