My 1st attempt at making homemade sauce last year was a disaster.. I was using regular old slicing tomatoes and the sauce was watery. The end result was not worth all the effort. This year I grew Roma tomatoes and I had a bounty of them. The lady who sold me the plant said that were San Marzano?? not sure about that. This sauce turned out much better. I roughly followed
this recipe. I did use basil enhanced evoo, onion, garlic, ground beef, green peppers and a bay leaf in addition to the other spices.. I also added a little sugar... because I thought I was supposed to. but after doing some web research.. I see this is a highly debatable move.
This will be my splurge dinner of the week, over some gourmet tagliatelle our new neighbors just gave us in a gift basket for allowing them to take down our fence( long story)
I grew up eating out of the Jar sauce.... this sauce was worth the effort.
Do you have a tried & true sauce recipe?
Hi Lauri
ReplyDeleteI love your new blog
Great job at trying your first sugo (sauce) I'm Italian!
Never use sugar ! No green pepper either . You can use crushed tomatoes Itiann brand in off season months
I will give you my Nonnaa recipe
In pot brown your ground beef , add a little salt .
Drain when brown
In pot add olive oil , add garlic (fresh) and chopped onion . Sautée ...add ground beef, crushed tomatoes , salt , oregano, a few springs, fresh basil leaves and 1 bay leaf .
Cook for an hour . For a thicker sauce remove lid .
When you add sugo to your pasta too with a few more fresh basil leaves ...enjoy .
Recipe straight from Itaky ...buona appetite
Ps don't forget to top with grated parmigianao
Enjoy
Patricia
Sorry a few sprigs of fresh parsley
ReplyDeletePatricia,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your Nonna's recipe