Ground Beef-Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• 16 ounce basil canned
• 8 ounce tomato sauce canned
• 1 teaspoon pepper red crushed
• 1  bell pepper green chopped
• 3 pounds ground beef lean
• 1 large onion chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 6 ounce tomato paste canned

Equipment

• dutch oven

Directions

1. Cook first 3 ingredients in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat, stirring until beef crumbles and is no longer pink; drain. Return beef mixture to Dutch oven.
2. Stir in tomato sauces and remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, 20 minutes.
3. Remove from heat, and cool 10 minutes.
4. Spoon beef mixture into zip-top plastic freezer bags; seal and freeze up to 2 months.