The Perfect Italian-Style Tomato Sauce
Created | Updated Jun 10, 2002
This sauce is good with pasta, with one of this researcher's other recipes, Stuffed Squash, or with grilled meat.
Perfect Italian-Style Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
- Olive Oil
- One small onion
- 2 large cloves of garlic
- 800g tin of whole skinned tomatoes
- Dried or fresh marjoram, thyme, basil, oregano etc.
- 2 teaspoons of tomato paste *
Method
1. Chop the onion finely. Crush garlic with the flat of the knife blade and then chop it finely.
2. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large frying pan. Add the garlic and onion and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon until garlic is soft and onion is transparent.
3. Chop tomatoes into small pieces* and when the onion and garlic are both transparent and soft, add the tomatoes and all the juice that was in the can with them.
4. Taste the sauce and if the sauce isn't tomatoey enough, add some tomato paste and stir well.
5. Add dried herbs to taste now or fresh ones just before the sauce is finished and add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Simmer sauce until thick and rich.
NOTE:Tastes best if eaten immediately, but it can be reheated.
Serves 2-4, depending on what you serve with it.
