Classic Red Sauce
🍅 Pastate (recipe to follow)
🍅 Two large jars tomatoes (fresh from garden will take your sauce to another level!! In a pinch I use glass jarred tomatoes and WF 365 organic tomatoes. I like to use one tomato purée and one tomato chopped)
🍅 one can tomato paste
🍅dried herbs (parsley+ oregano)
🍅Salt to taste ( I give one good pinch into the pastate and another small one before I set sauce to simmer.
Pastate
🧅 one medium onion
🌱one stalk of celery with leaves
🥕one orange carrot
🧄 two cloves garlic
🤏 Salt
drizzle of EVOO (1/4 cup)
Roughly cut all ingredients and put into food processor. Turn on and drizzle in olive oil. Turn off and scrape sides down with rubber spatula. Turn back on and process for 30 more seconds
Turn heat on heavy bottom pot to medium. Once pan is hot add your pastate mixture and turn heat down to med-low.
Sweat your pastate for about 5-7 minutes. The goal here is to steam mixture, not brown.
Add one can tomato paste and 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.
cook down for 2/3 minutes
Add your canned tomatoes slosh jars with water to add extra liquid about 3/4 cup.
Add dried parsley and dried oregano. Stir everything together and taste for seasoning.
Bring mixture to a simmer.Put lid on then turn down heat to low. Cook 20/25 minutes
You can use an emulsion blender to achieve a thinner sauce.
Serve with
-pasta
-meatballs
-chicken cutlets
-eggplant parm
