Traditional Pasta Sauce
- Ready In:
- 2hrs
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 125 ml olive oil
- 3 small red onions, chopped
- 2 -4 garlic cloves, chopped (alternately, use 2 chopped shallots if you are sensitive to garlic)
- 1 handful fresh oregano or 1 marjoram
- 1⁄2 liter beef broth
- 18 ounces tomato sauce. use pomodoro passata, see instructions below
- 250 g low fat ground beef or 250 g turkey
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 lbs pasta, of your choice and parmesan cheese to taste
directions
- Pomodoro passata is passed sieved tomatoes. Make it yourself using a food mill and blanched, peeled ripe Roma tomatoes. You will be happy you did this. Using canned tomatoes is possible but the flavor just will not be the same.
- Take a sauce pan and put the olive oil on low heat.
- When it's hot but not smoking throw in the chopped unions and garlic or shallots. Add a handful of fresh Oregano (or Marjoram which is the tame version of the same family.).
- Simmer until onions begin to lose their color.
- Add the broth and simmer this all slowly until the onions and garlic are glacé. Add grounded beef.
- Now power up the stove to med-high and sauté this until the meat is cooked.
- Stir constantly - do not stop stirring.
- With the fire still high add the tomatoes and stir it all together. Keep stirring until it starts to boil, then turn down the stove to low. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and salt and stir.
- Your tomato sauce should give of a yeasty odor at this point. This is what you are seeking.
- Let the sauce simmer on low heat, stirring occasionally.
- It's done when the yeasty odor is gone. This should take about 1 hour.
- Now boil your pasta in well-salted water. Drain and return to the pot. Add sauce (not too much, it's not pasta soup) and grate some good Parmesan on top.
- Eat as soon as it comes on the table. Add salt and pepper if you choose.
- In Italy you eat pasta when it comes and you do not wait for the rest to be served. Not even the Queen of Sheba is allowed to ruin your pasta.
- Drink a good red wine with it and be sure never to drink wine when you eat salad. It's embarrassing.
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