Bc Moffetts Marinara Sauce
From elgourmand 14 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 6
I hate admitting I ain’t clever. I’d been making a very good marinara sauce for over 50 years and getting good reviews too. Then I ran across this one by Bruce C. Moffett at Good Cooking. Why not try something new? Read more Well stuff me with corn bread and call me a turkey; I really liked it. It’s fresh and right there. I made a few changes, like using crushed tomatoes instead of tomato sauce and the optional olives but it’s really James’ sauce. No, we didn’t forget the onions, there aren’t any, capire? James says: Marinara Sauce is the famous Italian tomato sauce. Marinara Sauce can be rich and meaty, good over spaghetti or linguini, or it can be light and vegetarian, for veal Parmigiano or such. Marinara Sauce is good with big chunks of wild mushrooms in it and served over pasta. Here is my recipe for a good honest marinara with about any kind of ground meat. Beef of course is a natural. This recipe is also fine for vegetarian Marinara Sauce. Leave out the meat, and go a bit lighter on the spices. Wild mushrooms are good with Marinara Sauce. Buono Felcità (good luck) See less
Ingredients
- • 1 lb ground meat shopping list
- • 2 slices of bacon, chopped (optional) shopping list
- • 2 Tbs olive oil shopping list
- • 2 cloves garlic, chopped shopping list
- • Handful or so mushrooms, good but optional shopping list
- • 4-5 cans crushed tomatoes. shopping list
- • 4 or 5 ripe olives sliced (optional) shopping list
- • a can or two of dry wine, red or white shopping list
- • Tbs or two of fresh basil, or couple tsp. dry shopping list
- • tsp. oregano shopping list
- • good grind black pepper shopping list
- • ½ tsp. fennel seed, crushed shopping list
- • tsp. vinegar shopping list
- • scant tsp. sugar shopping list
- • dash Tabasco (very optional) shopping list
- • other kinds of Chile are optional shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Put the olive oil in a suitable pot and brown the meat & bacon
- 2. Add the garlic and frizz a bit
- 3. Add the mushrooms and olives and toss that round a bit
- 4. Add the tomatoes, wine & spices (all the stuff that’s left)
- 5. Let Marinara Sauce simmer down slowly, stir occasionally so it doesn’t stick. This is a very versatile sauce with a wide range of uses. The above would be quite right for a good plate of Spaghetti for half a dozen people. Make the Marinara Sauce more concentrated, and more highly spiced if you are going to flavor a whole Lasagna with it, or make Marinara Sauce much lighter, and without meat, to showcase freshly found wild mushrooms, or as an accent to Veal a’la Parmigiano. Marinara Sauce is a fun sauce to play with and modify. Enjoy. Goza la vida! (Enjoy life!)
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Very nice!
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Nice recipe, like the wine in it!
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High 5!
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