By Alan
Beggerow
A basic recipe that is good just as is, or add an endless
variety of ingredients to suit your taste!
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 small onion finely chopped
- 1 stalk celery finely chopped
- 1 small carrot finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons dried parsley flakes
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 28 ounce can crushed or diced tomatoes
- 1/2 of 6 ounce can tomato paste
- 3 tablespoons dry sherry or 1/2 cup red wine
- small pinch red pepper flakes or powder
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- ground black pepper to taste
- salt to taste
Cook onions, carrot and celery in olive oil over low heat for a
minute or two. Add garlic and cook until onions are translucent,
about 10 minutes or so. Be careful not to burn the garlic! Garlic
is usually added after the onions and celery cook for a few minutes
because garlic will burn faster. Burnt garlic turns bitter!
Add parsley, basil, oregano and pepper. Increase heat to medium
and add tomatoes, tomato paste and sherry. Cook for a few minutes
while stirring. Add pepper flakes, cover and reduce heat to low
simmer and cook for 30 minutes.
And that's all there is to it! You can make the sauce thinner by
adding a little tomato juice or water to it, but I like it thick!
This sauce is an excellent base that you can add many things to.
Add meat, sliced mushrooms, zucchini, artichoke hearts, green
peppers, you name it! If you're going to add meat, cook the meat
first, and add before the tomatoes. Any vegetables can be cut up
and added just before the tomatoes.
2 pounds of fresh peeled and seeded tomatoes may be used instead
of canned. If fresh tomatoes are used, more salt may be needed and
the sauce may need to cook a little longer.
The flavors in this sauce get even better if it is frozen or
kept in the refrigerator for a day or two.
The article
Basic Tomato Sauce For Pasta was Submitted by Alan
Beggerow through Articles.GetACoder.com
network. Here's the additional information: Alan Beggerow owns and
operates Cathleen's Bargain Basement, an online business that
offers custom made apparel and hand crafted teddy bears by
Cathleen, and also offers a selection of jewelry, home decor, Asian
motif items, and much more. http://www.cathleensbargainbasement.com
Alan Beggerow is also a free lance writer. Visit his writing
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