Best EVER Basic Tomato Sauce Recipe
This is a rich, condensed flavourful multi-purpose tomato sauce. Once you make it, you'll never make another recipe.
Servings: 2 cups
Calories: 265kcal
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 100 grams or 1/2 medium onion diced
- 75 grams or medium carrot diced
- 75 grams or one stalk of celery including green tops, diced
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley minced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 28 oz. can whole tomatoes including juice (DOP tomatoes make ALL the difference OR fresh from the garden heirloom tomatoes)
- 85 grams or 3 ounces tomato paste 1/2 small can
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste (start with a teaspoon of salt)
Instructions
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in heavy wide skillet on medium heat
- Add chopped onion, carrot, celery and parsley
- Stir to incorporate; saute for 3 minutes
- Reduce heat to low; cover and cook for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally until vegetables are softened and cooked through
- Remove cover; add garlic and stir for 30 seconds
- Add tomato paste, basil and oregano; stir to coat (about 30 seconds to a minute)
- Add canned tomatoes; simmer (reduce heat to low) uncovered, until thick (about 90 minutes to 2 hours)
- Puree in blender, if preferred (I don't)
- Taste and season with salt and pepper, as needed (start with a teaspoon of salt)
- Cool and measure 1/2 cup portions of sauce into freezer bags; label and date
Notes
This is a lovely thick condensed sauce: I only use 1/4 cup for a pizza (use sparingly, it goes a long way). I make 4 times this recipe as it takes no longer and makes much more.