Beef and Eggplant Sauce for Pasta

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

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.

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

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