Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce

"This is a wonderful sauce to make with fresh home grown tomatoes. I freeze this after its made for use as a quick and easy pasta meal. This sauce even tastes better the next day! It is the perfect way to use an abundance of tomotoes!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
13
Yields:
7 cups
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat the oil in a large saucepan, cook the onion and garlic together, stiriing until the onion is soft. Add the tomatoes, salt and wine and simmer uncovered for about 15 minutes or until the tomatoes are soft.
  • Add the remaining ingredients, simmer uncovered for 10 minutes or until thickened. Remove bay leaves from sauce.
  • When cooled refrigerate for up to 3 days.
  • Use sauce as desired.

Questions & Replies

  1. When I cook down my seeded sauce it have a foam on the top. Do I take this off or just let it cook?
     
  2. I don't keep tomato paste, does it have to have it?
     
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Reviews

  1. Another winner Tis-this is great. I bought a 10kg box of tomatoes recently with plans to make this the moment I saw any getting past their best (which is their best for sauce like this!). I am in a remote area of Australia and must make do at times-I had to used dried basil and oregano (which I prefer over fresh often) but had parsley on hand. I don't think this altered the outcome very much and anyway, I'm thrilled with the result. I'll be freezing this and using at a later date with prawns, yabbies (crawfish), bacon and chillies to make a few different pasta sauces.
     
  2. I thought this was an easy sauce to make with an abundance of tomatoes gifted to me by my neighbor. I doubled the garlic. I had trouble with getting my sauce to thicken to the nice consistency as in the picture. I ended up adding more tomato paste and cooking a lot longer than the recipe specified. The taste was good and my friend and I enjoyed over spinach fettucine.
     
  3. Made this as a special gift for my vegetarian son & DIL, but did manage to keep about 1/3 of is for us here at home! My usual homemade sauce has Italian sausage in it, so this was a nice change of pace for everyone! So easy to make & so very flavorful, too! Thanks for sharing the recipe! I'll definitely be making it again, & freezing some of it, too! [Made & reviewed in I Recommend recipe tag]
     
  4. Very enjoyable fresh tom sauce, wish I had had some fresh basil to throw in there. Easy to make and makes quite a bit. Will come back to this again in summer when we hopefully have a good tomato crop! Thanks Tisme.
     
  5. Wonderful sauce and easy to do ! I kept to the recipe only adding a handful of grated carrot . I served this with fettuccini, topped with basil. Thanks, Tis.
     
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Tweaks

  1. Tisme, this is an excellent fresh tomato pasta sauce. I made one slight alteration to your recipe and that was I subbed beef broth for the red wine. I know that change had to alter the flavor however; I never buy red wine and some how skipped over it when I chose this recipe. I will definitely make this recipe again though, as I have one daughter who complains if there is even a tablespoon of sauce on her pasta and two others who will eat their pasta with sauce very begrudgingly. You can imagine my surprise when the daughter who doesn't like sauce had a second bowl of spaghetti covered in sauce, and their were no picky complaints at the table! Made and reviewed for the 38th AUS/NZ Recipe Swap.
     

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