Recipe

Basic Spaghetti Or Pasta Sauce Recipe

	Soprano / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago This is a basic spaghetti/pasta sauce recipe that I adapted from Knudsen's "Cooking for Complements". This sauce can be used anywhere you would use a tomato-based pasta sauce. Prep:10m Cook:90m Servings:8	Soprano
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Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil

minced garlic or garlic powder to taste (I usually use at least 4 cloves)

12 oz. can tomato paste

36 oz. water (use the tomato paste can)

28 oz. can tomato puree

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. brown sugar (I use Sugar in the Raw)

1 tsp. dried basil

1/2 tsp. dried oregano

1/2 tsp. dried tarragon

Directions

Sauté minced garlic in olive oil until slightly browned.

Add tomato paste.

Add water; I find it easiest to start with small amounts of water and stirring well until the tomato paste is thinned down some.

Add remaining ingredients in the order listed and mix well.

Bring sauce mixture to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer *uncovered* for 90 minutes, stirring every 30 minutes. The sauce WILL spatter as it simmers; I use a screen designed to keep frying foods from spattering to reduce this. Do NOT use a pot lid; the sauce needs to cook down in quantity.

This recipe makes a lot of sauce; it can be divided and frozen for later use.

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Comments

linebb956 1 year, 10 months ago said:
This is a great basic sauce... Add your meatballs and let simmer with... or sausage. Yummy. Great sauce to start with... Thanks!