Easy Meat Sauce for Spaghetti or Zoodles | Just 4 Ingredients! Ready in 20 minutes! 🤩

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Ground turkey is leaner and lower in fat.

red wine

🥗Healthier: grape juice

💰Cheaper: beef broth

Grape juice adds sweetness without alcohol.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated mozzarella

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Welcome to Marie's kitchen, today we're making an easy meat sauce.

For the sauce, you'll need 1 pound of grass-fed ground beef and a jar of your favorite marinara sauce.

If you want to add more flavor, you can include 2 links of Italian sausage.

Use a medium-sized pot, like a medium Dutch oven, and turn the heat to medium-high.

Add the ground beef to the pot, squeezing it out of the package to keep hands clean.

Add the 2 links of Italian sausage, cutting the casing and popping the sausage out.

Use a wooden spatula to break up the meat into small pieces while it cooks.

Once the beef is browned and in small pieces, you can choose to drain it or leave it as is.

Grate a medium-sized carrot using a microplane grater and add it to the pot for sweetness and flavor.

Stir the grated carrot into the meat mixture and optionally add more garlic for flavor.

Pour the marinara sauce into the pot with the cooked meat and carrot, and stir to combine.

Let the sauce simmer to combine flavors and tenderize the meat, tasting and seasoning with salt and pepper as needed.

Prepare zucchini noodles using a spiralizer or a veggie peeler for a quick alternative.

If using a spiralizer, secure it and roll the zucchini to create noodles.

If using a veggie peeler, peel the zucchini into flat noodles, turning it as you go to avoid the seeds.

Cook the zucchini noodles in a non-stick pan with a little olive oil over medium heat, optionally adding garlic for flavor.

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