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how to thicken spaghetti sauce

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how to thicken spaghetti sauce

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The best way to thicken it is with meat. Take some ground beef. Brown it and drain it. Get a blender…add sauce and meat, preferably hot or at least warm. Put on puree for a couple of minutes until you can no longer see the individual grains of meat in the sauce. Pour over pasta. Adding starch to sauce, btw, makes it taste like Hormel products. You know that taste that’s in the background for all Hormel products, chili, their packaged meals, etc. That’s cornstarch. Flour tastes even ickier. White rice flour, on the other hand, has almost no taste (found in the chinese food section of grocery stores). Meat is still best though.

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I usually make my sauce from fresh tomatoes and fresh seasonings. I thicken it with tomato paste – just use only what you need to give it the consistency you want – add 1 teaspoon at a time and mix well to keep the sauce smooth.

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You are better off not adding a flour thickener as the flour will retain its raw taste and spoil your sauce. Simmer uncovered stirring regularly until it reduces to about the consistency you want, then add a few knobs of butter- this will thicken it slightly, and give the sauce a velvety sheen.

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Add a can of tomato paste and simmer the sauce at a low temp for an hour or two stirring frequently. This will make a great sauce! I have tried using cornstarch before and it just doesn’t turn out like sauce.

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Agree that you should just let it simmer down and reduce. In the end, you will actually have a more flavorful sauce.

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