How to Make an Easy Venison Spaghetti Sauce
Learn how to make an Easy Venison Spaghetti Sauce using ingredients you probably already have in your pantry! This deer spaghetti recipe is a family dinner staple and one of our daughter's favorite ground venison recipes.
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground venison (or ½ pound ground Italian sausage and ½ pound ground venison)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 medium yellow onion, finely diced
- 2 celery stalks, finely diced
- 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon Worcerstershire sauce
- ½ cup beef broth (more if needed)
- 1 pound spaghetti noodles, for serving
Instructions
- Season ground venison with salt and pepper.
- In a large Dutch oven, add the ground venison and finely diced onion and celery over medium high heat and sauté for about 5 minutes.
- Add crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, Italian seasoning, onion powder, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, sugar, and Worcestershire to the Dutch oven and stir until everything is well combined.
- Add beef broth and stir well to combine. Increase the heat to high and bring to a boil and stir well one more time.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer for at least 30 minutes or up to 3 hours, stirring every 15 minutes. If the sauce starts to get too thick, stir in a little more beef broth (or pasta water from your cooked spaghetti) until it reaches the consistency that you want.
- If serving for dinner, add cooked spaghetti to the sauce. Mix to combine and let the pasta cook in the sauce over low heat for about 5 minutes.
