Nonni Bellavia Basic Italian tomato Gravy
From mystic_river1 14 years ago
- 240 minutes to make
- Serves 8
A savory recipe which is a sweet memory for me. My nonni making sauce at the kitchen table with my mother helping and me taking it all in. Fresh plum tomatoes and sweet onions and herbs from Nonni's garden and the sweeter sound of their voices. Read more This is the basic sauce recipe from which many were built. See less
Ingredients
- About 20 -30 ripe plum tomatoes shopping list
- 3 medium (sweeter than large) sweet onions shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic green center removed shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- fresh basil and oregano shopping list
- the best flavorful olive oil you know of to saute onion and garlic shopping list
- * two main ingredients for a perfect pasta gravy shopping list
- FRESH shopping list
- SLOW-COOKED GENTLY shopping list
How to make it
- You will need a food mill and a large cooking vessel
- Boil tomatoes in lightly salted water
- Remove when done; cool in food mill in dish drain in sink
- Meanwhile slice and chop onion and garlic rather finely
- Heat pot to medium only
- Add oil and onion and garlic
- Saute
- Process tomatoes in food mill directly over large pot (dutch oven is good)
- Discard seeds and skins
- Keep on medium ; when hot lower to high simmer
- Over the course of the next 3 hours GENTLY add salt basil and oregano a bit at a time.
- The flavors will marry and be happy ever after.
- You can double ot triple recipe and freeze portions you are not going to use immediately.
- Once you have your basic sauce you can add sausage...meatballs...pork skin....etc etc
processing tomatoes in food mill
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Reviewed by 5 people-
wow! great post will have to try never made it.LOL high5
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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When I was able and had time to raise my own garden, Mom and I would put up about 200 qts a year of tomatoes... half of them in juice and the other half in tomato quarters. I haven't canned in a very long time, but I still have my food mill which sav...more
windy1950
in Flint loved it
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This sound so good.
Hi 5.
Ed
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in Dorchester-Boston loved it
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