Italian Tomato Sauce | This Is Why I’m Full
This is an easy recipe as far as making a delicious tomato sauce goes. It won’t take you all day if you’re going to prepare it for dinner tonight. Some sauces I have seen want you to simmer them for hours and hours, but this will do it in about an hour and a half. If we were to make this sauce again we would definitely make it in bulk, maybe spend an evening making the sauce and prepping it to be canned
As you can see from the photos this makes a pretty thick sauce. We love thick sauces since you can use it for other things as well, like Bruschetta. If you’re a fan of a thin sauce its simple enough to do just make sure you crush your canned tomatoes until there is more liquid and less solids in the sauce and simmer the same way you would with this recipe. Although we use canned tomatoes for this recipe you can simply substitute what you have left in your garden, or from the whole tomatoes you bought from the store for that matter. Just make sure the measurements are the same or close to what you would get out the cans.
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- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes
- 4 clove garlic crushed
- 3/4 cup Onion chopped
- 1 tsp fresh shopped oregano divided, or 1/2 dried
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh basil divided, or 1/2 dried
- 1 tsp fresh chopped mint divided
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/4 tsp Fresh ground black pepper
- 4 can whole tomatoes 14.5 oz can
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- Pour your two cans of tomatoes into a bowl and crush with yoru hand. Don't break them up too small, you want to have large chunks in your sauce.
- In a large heavy bottomed pot with a lid, use a burner with no flame, pour olive oil in and add red pepper flakes, garlic, onion, oregano, basil and mint. (save a little bit of each for the end) sugar salt and pepper. Turn on the burner and slowly bring up to heat. When the onions and garlic start to cook, stir and heat for five minutes.
- Remove the pot from the burner and place a heat diffuser over the burner. Place the pot over the heat diffuser and add the tomatoes. Turn the burner to medium high and stir until they start to boil. Then reduce to simmer, partially cover and simmer 90 minutes.
- After 90 minutes, remove from heat and add the reserved herbs. Add the butter to round out the flavors, stir again and serve.
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