This is the cheats pasta sauce.  I cook a big pot of it and freeze half of it for another day.  You can use mince in this recipe, I used Pinenut & Spinach sausages, italian sausages work well for this as well.

Ingredients

• 1 Onion
• 2 Chillies
• 200g Sliced Mushrooms
• 700g Jar Passata
• 400g Can Tomatoes
• 2 tsp minced garlic
• 1/2 tsp dried basil
• 1/2 tsp dried oregano
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme
• 4 Pinenut & Spinach Sausages
• Handful of Parsley
• 1/2 cup water

Method

Cut each sausage into 3-4 pieces. Heat oil in a large saucepan and lightly brown sausages.  Remove sausages from pan.  Add diced onions and chopped chillies,  cook till onions are soft. Add garlic and mushrooms and half of chopped parsley, Cook for 2 mins, add jar of Passata, can tomatoes, sausages ,herbs, garlic and water.  Bring to boil and then lower heat and let simmer for 20 mins.

Garnish with parsley, serve with pasta.