The Perfect Tomato Sauce
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Loading...Perfect tomato sauce: why “perfect”? Because a tomato sauce can be made in a thousand different ways, but this recipe contains the essence of the most classic traditional Italian cooking. It is a tomato sauce that is prepared in summer, using fresh tomatoes, excellent extra virgin olive oil, garlic, salt and a few basil leaves Perfect tomato sauce is ideal for dressing spaghetti, but I recommend it on bread: a perfect snack for any occasion and at any time of day If I find beautiful, pulpy and perfectly ripe tomatoes at the market, I buy them in large quantities, prepare a ton of tomato sauce and freeze it in single portions to be consumed during the bad season when I want to remember the flavors and colors of summer
Ingredients
- Fresh Red Tomatoes 2kg
- Garlic 2 cloves
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Unsalted Butter 20gr
- Basil
- Salt
Instructions
You need excellent gravy tomatoes (other than salad tomatoes which are harder and less juicy) ripe and pulpy. Wash them thoroughly, remove the green stalk and cut them into pieces
In a pan, heat the oil and cook the garlic until golden (be careful not to burn it because it becomes very bitter). Remove the garlic, remove the pan from the heat and throw the tomatoes in the oil, a few at a time because they could splash.
Add salt and cook over low heat, with the lid on, for at least half an hour or until they are completely undone. Then pass them through a vegetable mill and collect the pulp in the pan. Add a little more oil and finish cooking, always over low heat until it has reduced a bit, it will take about another 10 minutes
Add a couple of basil leaves, a knob of butter and let it cool: The Perfect Tomato Sauce is ready
Notes
Perfect tomato sauce is pure simplicity: if you don't want to pass the sauce or if you don't have a vegetable mill, no problem, skip the step. You will get a less elegant Perfect tomato sauce but just as good A variation is to dip the tomatoes for a few seconds in boiling water, until you see that the peel breaks. Immediately freeze them in ice water (to save the bright red of the tomatoes), remove the skin, cut them into pieces and cook them following the recipe It will take less time but the final result, without cooking the skins, will be a little less tasty
ItalianCookingTips
You can add a pinch of chili pepper or oregano to your Perfect Tomato Sauce instead of basil, for a spicier taste
ItalianCookingTips
The Perfect Tomato Sauce can be frozen, so you will always have an excellent sauce with which to season your pasta
ItalianCookingTips
how to recognize good sauce tomatoes? They must be bright red, very pulpy to the touch and, above all, they must smell good! If they do not smell, most likely they were frozen …
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