How to Make Italian Sunday Sauce | Allrecipes

I only have tomato purée made from my homegrown tomatoes. I don’t have crushed tomatoes can I use just the puree?

My nonna (from Palermo) always used fennel seed in her sauce. I love it so I do it too. 
Every family has their way & their traditions. It's all good. 🍝

Also known as Neapolitan Ragu. It was brought to the U.S. by the millions of southern Italian immigrants. However in Italy, we never serve the meat over the pasta. The meat flavors the sauce, and only the sauce and pasta are served together. The meat is served as a separate course with vegetables after the pasta.

Hah... ThankU Luv... It's just like my Mama would have made it... Hahaa

This is not a meat sauce, buy it has meat in it...Hahaa..... Very funni indeed. It's like saying one doesn't think the Pope is Roman Catholic....Hahaa...I just like yah sense of humour... Hahaa..

I just want to say how much I love your channel and your recipes 😊

Great! My Grandparents Are From Ferentino Italy We Ate This Exactly Every Sunday for 25 Years

This is our Sunday gravy and it starts with a ricola for my throat.

Can I ask what may be a silly question… what size pot are you cooking this in?

Christmas is a pagan Roman catholic church holiday were in the scriptures says to celebrate it

No swine its unclean ground turkey

You are one of but a few culinary artist that as soon as I pull up your video I hit the thumbs up because I know it will be GREAT!!! Thank You for doing what You do so Well!

Sunday you were going to be at that table I live in that ERA Still no technology what so ever. After the Card Games and Espresso and Sambuca came out I still try and continue the tradition.

Love the Content and Technique Princess. This coming from a 100% Italian Family born and rasied in Brooklyn NYC. 8 hour "Sawce" ebetuung Pork, Veal, Bracciole right in that Sauce for about 8 hours. Used to get the wooden spoon from my Nonna because we would sneak and dip the best Italian bread that only NYC makes in the Sauce. Lol. Yes it's true it's all about the NYC Water besides knowing how to perfect this 8 hour 💎

in italy we use oregano just for 'pizzaiola'

Thank you Nicole. I love your Sunday sauce. I used your recipe as a base. I use pork chops along with the pork chop bones...italian sausage, and italian meatballs. So good! My older son who normally does not like spaghetti tried this and fall in love with spaghetti. this is a game changee for my family when everybody actually loves spaghetti and you can just cook one thing instead of 4 things bc someone doesn't like the main recipe. But now, everybody loves the main recipe. LOVE LOVE LOVE this.

Love this recipe and yes I’ve jooggged it my up!

The way you make your sauce is very close to way I make mine which I learned from my grandma and mom.

Do not call Italian sauce gravy NEVER

This seems like A GREAT Recipe for Football season!!! Especially if your team plays later in the Day

I defy this woman to find any can ot tomatoes that says gravy on it. Its sauce! Only sauce!
Gravy is a bastardized version of Italian sauce from a language barrier with ignorant Americans who frequented Italian eateries when they went to Italian restaurants.

Gravies are brown and made from meat juices. Sunday sauce is made from the sauce and we add meat to flavor and finish cook the meat to keep it soft and juicy. Not to flavor the sauce.

This woman is intellectually incorrect. Italians do not call sauce gravy. Firstly they don't in the language have a word for gravy as Americans do. In italy everything is a sugo or sauce.

Her inter usability of the word gravy with sauce is her american bastardized understanding of what shes doing. Its sugo north south and in every direction in Italy.

False information and her recipe is no secret!

less blabbing and more cooking please

My wife and I prepared and cooked all of the meat and onions last night. This morning, we started cooking the sauce and then put in all the meat. She kept telling me, "You're killing me" because of all the wonderful aromas. We just added some mushrooms because we love mushrooms. We've been tasting it all day (for salt content 😊). It is the best sauce we've ever tasted. Thank you so much for sharing.

Looks scrumptious. Thank you for sharing your family recipe!

How many thumbs up can i give u girl. So loved this recipe. The real deal.

Italian American immigrants when they came over here in the 1890's thru 1930's, they had to create their own recipes, because they couldn't find the supplies they could in the old country! They were astonished with the amount of meat there was, and learned to braise all different cuts to feed their families! I honor those immigrants, their courage and sacrifice, their hard work and most importantly their love, which is eternal!

a sugo consists of carrots and celery.... also you should have used a lil wine to deglaze the pan after having had cooked the meat.... what kind of italian are you ? LOL
(I ALSO CANT BELIEVE YOU USED CONTADINA..... YUCK)

i am 83 so have been making sauce for many years but every now and than i like to try others recipes i am making yours as we speak. i forgot to add salt and pepper to the meatballs something i have never forgotten they are still good . the sauce has been coking 1 1/2 hour so far .i only added 5 cups of water so far but tastes good. the only different thing i did was when i fried the meatballs i rolled them in flour like lida does that italian cook who has a tv show since she did it that way

My Aunt Annie made the best sauce. I have been trying to make it for years. Your recipe is the closest I've come to getting it right. Thank you. Love the meatballs too.

I tried to contact Arnone's Sausage but the number I got from their Facebook page didn't work (recording said the number was not in service). Can you please tell me how I can contact Arnone's to get their sausage?? Many thanks.

My Grandmother used to put chicken and Braciole in her sauce along with sausage, meatballs, and pork

I used this for meatball sub sourdough bread oh my goodness delicious 🤤 ❤ yummy

How big is the pot that was used?

Pretty sure I don't have a drop of Italian blood in my system. My ancestors were Romanian, German and a pinch of English. However, I absolutely love all those Italian flavors. That said, I see a new Sunday tradition in my life. Thanks so much Nicole for sharing your family's recipe and making Sunday sauce less intimidating. I'm definitely trying this. Much love to you & yours and a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. 🎄😋

When doing pasta al succo use also some red wine

All I can say is O...M...G!!!!!! I followed this recipe and I feel like a chef. This was so good, totally unbelievable! I made the meatballs also. I didn't have breadcrumbs so I whizzed a box of Aldi stuffing mix and used some of that. Deep flipping licious! So tender just like you said. Other than the stuffing mix I followed to the letter. OMG people you can be a chef too! The whole house smelled so good I called the neighbors over just to smell. Nicole, you are the best cook, chef 👩‍🍳 EVER!!!!!!❤❤

My mom made this sauce using beef bones and cooked it for "2" two days, yummy.

I just smelled your sauce. Superb! I'm making it tomorrow, my husband will be so happy. Thank you for your "secret" Sunday sauce!

When is that Cookbook coming out? 👍🙏

Made this today. Talk about YUMMO. Three extra containers in the freezer for another day. Absolutely delicious.

OMG, That looks like Heaven 😋😋😋😋

I made your sauce one Sunday morning and enjoyed the tasting process all day and the meatballs, sausages and neck bones were a hit as well.

I love this !I thought I was the only one that put pork in mine and the Italian sausage but I use ground sausage so I’ll have to try the likes

Absolutely love you and your channel, you are so real.

I froze 20 lbs of tomatoes today.
20 lbs last week.
Lots of sauce this winter!

My wife and I live in Medellin, Colombia. (Originally from Houston, Texas.) This morning, I went to our big local market and found one of the pork sellers. They weren't hard to find because they were carving up an entire pig on the side table. I ordered 2 kg of "huesos de cuello de cerdo" (bones of the neck of the pig). They were happy to oblige. The total cost was 45,000 COP (about $10 US.) Thank you for sharing this wonderful secret family recipe.

Everything is in the sauce. Now I just have to wait 4-6 hours. I'm sure it will be worth it!

Ahhhhh....lightbulb goes on! I didn't know about Nicole's Italian heritage, but that explains her inability to speak without the hand gestures. LOL! I'm cooking this recipe right now, btw. :)