Sandy's Spaghetti Sauce
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 28 ounces crushed tomatoes
- 1 onion, thinly sliced (small to medium sized)
- 6 -7 garlic cloves, minced
- 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
- 1 celery rib, finely chopped
- 1 -2 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1⁄2 - 1 teaspoon dried tarragon
- 2 -3 shakes crushed red pepper flakes
- salt and pepper, to taste
- extra virgin olive oil
- black olives, chopped (optional)
- parsley (optional)
directions
- Heat pan on high for 1-2 minutes. Add about 1/4 cup of oil to pan, enough to cover the bottom.
- Add a little bit of garlic (maybe 1/4), all the onions, celery, and mushrooms.
- Lower heat immediately to medium or medium high.
- Saute veggies for about 5 minutes, stirring often.
- Add a sprinkle of salt to bring out the mushroom juice.
- Add tomatoes, basil, oregano, tarragon, crushed red pepper, the rest of the garlic, and a few shakes of black pepper (and olives and parsley, if using). If adding olives, be careful about adding salt, since the olives are salty. Rinsing them first helps.
- Stir and simmer on low heat for 40 minutes or longer.
- Taste and adjust seasonings.
- Depending on the tomatoes, you may have to add more salt or sugar. If the tomatoes are kind of sour, add a small sprinkle of sugar.
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