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How To Make A Basic Italian Tomato Sauce

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How To Make A Basic Italian Tomato Sauce
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Basic Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe. Everyone should know how to make a basic pasta sauce and this one is ideal. Renowned chef, Katie Caldesi, takes us step by step in creating this classic. Appreciate our Basic Italian Tomato Sauce recipe. Enlarge Basic Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe. Everyone should know how to make a basic pasta sauce and this one is ideal. Renowned chef, Katie Caldesi, takes us step by step in creating this classic. Appreciate our Basic Italian Tomato Sauce recipe.
Serves:
4
Preparation Time:
20 minutes
Cooking Time:
25 minutes
Total Time:
45 minutes

Step 1: You will need

  • 7 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ red onion
  • 2 medium garlic cloves
  • 800 g canned chopped tomatoes
  • 100 ml vegetable stock or water
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 knife
  • 1 chopping board
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • 1 large frying pan

Step 2: Onion

Put 7 tablespoons of olive oil into a pan over a low heat. While it is heating, slice the ends off the red onion, and peel the outer skins.

Add the onion to the pan. Fry for 7 minutes, stirring occasionally to ensure that the pieces cook evenly. Cooking the onions for this long gives the sauce its sweetness. When cooked the onions should be translucent and golden.

Step 3: Garlic

Peel the 2 garlic cloves and add them whole to the pan. Cook for about a minute, taking care not to burn the garlic. Add 2 generous pinches of freshly ground black pepper and 3 generous pinches of salt

Step 4: Tomatoes

Pour in 800 grams of chopped tomatoes and stir. Use the spoon to break tomatoes down a little. You will also find that they naturally break down as they cook. Turn the heat up until the sauce begins to simmer. Then leave the sauce to cook for roughly 20 minutes. If it starts to burn add some water or vegetable stock

Step 5: Liquid

Add the remaining 100 millilitres of water or vegetable stock to the pan and gently stir for about 2 minutes. The sauce should be thick and not watery so allow it to reduce down. This will concentrate the flavours. Now leave the sauce to reduce for 10 minutes. If you feel it has reduced too far and is likely to burn add a little more water. Don't be afraid to taste a little and add more salt or pepper if you think it needs it.

Step 6: Serve

This sauce goes well with any type of pasta.
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Tips & Comments
  1. PetraR123

    This amount of olive oil for such a small portion of way to dry sauce madness. You can actually see the amount of the oil on the side of the sauce while it simmers. Just because it is Olive Oil and healthy in small amounts does not mean you can drown food in it.

  2. friedgreentomato

    Wack the garlic then peel it , take of the hard end and mince. Add it to the tomato sauce without prior deep frying. Whole cloves barely add flavour ! Use a pan with a lid to control moisture/thickness level never add water. With fresh tomatoes sauteed onions will add the sweetness however canned already contain sugar. Simmer with fresh basil ,oregano ,tyme atleast 2 hours. Adding salt severely limits the applications for the sauce as a base .

  3. rawfooddiet100

    Great video on Italian food. Napoli is the birthplace of so many dishes we think of as Italian: pizza, parmesan cheese, tomato ragu, spaghetti, lasagna, mozzarella cheese, marinara sauce. Ronald Russell Author of "Don Carina" - WWII Mafia epic http://www.DonCarina.com

  4. ctownsend

    does anyone know about how long this would last in the fridge after making it?

  5. dadorian

    So simple yet absolutely delicious. I added some diced bacon and a few mushrooms to this sauce and it was great, thank you

  6. chembuff1982

    Can this be done with my home grown tomatoes?

  7. kindgirl

    I'm Italian and I study this subject(kitchen).the basic recipe is with a garlic clove, let it brown and remove the garlic before put in the tomatoes. Put the salt at last,water goes if it's too much thick..we cook the sauce just for 20 minutes...black pepper goes in the pepper mill and the chilly pepper in a small dish at the table....the customer if want use this two ingredients.

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  10. acchudeepa

    I am so thankful to you wanted to learn it. Thank you Video Jug