Spaghetti Sauce Review: Ragu Chunky Gardenstyle Garden Combination is the Best

Spaghetti sauce is one of those dishes that everyone has a different recipe for. But if you don't have an excellent homemade spaghetti recipe then the sauce used must be of excellent quality. After all, the sauce used is the base of the spaghetti sauce. The problem is that there are so many different brands and flavors that it can be hard to find the perfect sauce. After many years of buying different kinds, I figured out the best one a few years ago. It's the Ragu Chunky Gardenstyle Garden Combination flavor. Some of the ingredients include: mushrooms, diced tomatoes, green peppers, onions, carrots, and zucchini. The label says it has celery, but I haven't actually noticed it. Perhaps it's ground up. At first thought, this sauce sounds rather odd. But it's really very tasty.

To make the spaghetti sauce even better, this is what you do. Fry approximately one pound of ground beef per 2 lb 13 oz jar of Ragu Chunky Gardenstyle Garden Combination sauce. While the ground beef is cooking, add a half clove of fresh garlic per pound of ground beef, and salt and pepper to taste. After the ground beef is done, drain it and then add it to the sauce. After the ground beef is in the Ragu Chunky Gardenstyle Garden Combination sauce (which should already be heated up), add a generous amount of dried basil and pepper to the sauce. Unless you know that you like fresh basil, do not use the fresh kind. Personally, I think fresh basil is one of the worse things I've ever eaten. However, I love dried basil. I used to also add Italian seasoning, but I stopped since I didn't see a difference in flavor.

This spaghetti sauce recipe is rather thick, so it works best with a type of pasta that can stand up to it. Regular thin spaghetti is better to use than angel hair since angel hair is so dainty. I've also served it over rigatoni, but that pasta is almost too big and thick for the sauce.

Some people like to put the leftover boiled pasta into the spaghetti sauce. I do not recommend this at all. Old boiled pasta isn't as tasty as freshly cooked pasta. And if you dump the pasta into the sauce then everyone has to eat the leftovers that way.

This spaghetti sauce goes nicely with garlic bread and a tossed salad. For a simple salad, I use a bag of mixed lettuce, some extra green leaf lettuce, grape tomatoes, sliced (not cubed) cucumbers, and cauliflower. This makes a balanced meal that is also really good.