Look at the steam rising up from the sauce – YUM 🙂 Homemade Venison Spaghetti Sauce is very easy to make and it’s a low-calorie meal that’s perfect for dieters. Even the kids will love it. You’d never know from the taste that it’s only 146 calories!
Once you’ve had homemade spaghetti sauce, you’ll never go back to store-bought. You can add whatever you want to the sauce–bell peppers, mushrooms, onions, etc… This is a great sauce recipe that you can use in many different recipes and it’s great for home canning as well.
I’ve used my Homemade Venison Spaghetti Sauce recipe and left out the ground venison burger and venison sausage, and instead, used the meatball recipes from my Spicy Venison Meatballs and Venison Meatball Subs recipes and it turned out awesome!
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Ingredients
- 1 lb ground venison burger
- 1/2 venison sausage
- 1 onion, chopped (optional)
- 2 28 oz. cans of crushed tomatoes in puree
- 2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 1 tsp. oregano
- 1 tsp. basil
- 1/2 tsp. onion powder
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 9 oz. thin spaghetti
Instructions
- In a large frying pan heated to medium-high heat, crumble the venison burger and the venison sausage and fry until done, which should be no more than 7 minutes.
- Once the venison is done, drain any excess fat (if any) and add the onion. Fry the onion until it is somewhat transparent. Maybe 3 minutes.
- In a large kettle, add the tomatoes and all of the spices and heat until it boils and then remove it from the heat and add the venison and onions.
- Place the kettle back on the burner and once it starts to boil turn it back to low. At this point you just want to keep the sauce warm.
- Cook the pasta according to the package directions, which is usually for 8-9 minutes in boiling water.
- Once the paste is done, drain it and put the spaghetti and sauce together in whichever manner you please.
Grab some spaghetti and pile it on a plate and cover it with the sauce or gently mix it all in a big bowl. I love to sprinkle the top with parmesan cheese and sometimes I mix the sauce in with noodles or spaghetti, put it in a casserole dish, sprinkle it with mozzarella cheese, and melt it in the oven. It’s so delicious!
Salad and a slice of garlic Texas Toast make great sides. It’s going to be good no matter how you fix it.
The good, the bad and the delicious…
- Homemade Venison Spaghetti Sauce has lots of protein, vitamin C, and iron.
- It’s also, unfortunately, might be too high in calories, fat, and sodium for some.
See tips below for making this a more diet-friendly recipe.
The nutritional information does not include any cheese you might have added to the top–It’s only for the ingredients in the actual recipe, including the pasta and this is with it mixed together in a bowl like in the photo at the bottom of the page.
Homemade Venison Spaghetti Sauce
Nutrition Facts
| Yields: 3.5 quarts / 14 cups | Serving Size: 1 Cup |
| Calories 330 | Calories from Fat: 33 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 12 g | 18% |
| Saturated Fat 5 g | 24% |
| Monounsaturated Fat 2 g | |
| Polyunsaturated Fat 1 g | |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 66 mg | 22% |
| Sodium 449 mg | 19% |
| Potassium 371 mg | 11% |
| Total Carbohydrates 32 g | 11% |
| Dietary Fiber 4 g | 16% |
| Sugars 5 g | |
| Protein 23 g | 45% |
| Vitamin A 12% | Vitamin C 21% |
| Calcium 2% | Iron 22% |
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA, but were calculated by MyFitnessPal, Inc. by Under Armour, Inc.
To make this recipe more diet-friendly…
- To help lower the cholesterol and fat you could use less fat in your ground venison. This recipe was calculated using 80/20 ground venison burger and venison sausage that is mixed with pork sausage.
- To help lower the calories you could skip adding in the venison sausage to the sauce and also use less fat in your venison burger.
- To help lower the sodium use a salt alternative for the added salt in the recipe or leave it out and use low sodium tomatoes or fresh tomatoes.
- Whatever changes you make to your Homemade Venison Spaghetti Sauce, you can recalculate the nutrition facts at myfitnesspal.com.
Bon Appétit
I love the fact that there is a website that has recipes using deer meat. I personally love using deer meat because I’m a country girl. I hunt and fish. It’s easy to work with.
I’m so glad you found my website and I hope you find some recipes to try. I’m a country girl and love hunting and fishing too!
I am 81 yrs now but was also a country girl and loved to hunt and fish. I love your venison recipe and I will use it this weekend. My family makes sure I have venison and I enjoy making different recipes. I hope you continue sending in different recipes as I will keep looking for them.
Dea, it makes me feel great when people leave comments like yours so thank you very much for taking the time to do so. That’s nice of your family to make sure you have venison! Keep coming back for more recipes. I don’t post as often as I’d like but will continue to share my recipes as I can.