Fresh tomato sauce
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Total time: 32 min • Prep: 10 min • Cook: 22 min • Serves: 6 • Difficulty: Easy
A fresh tomato sauce is a joy even in winter, thanks to our markets overflowing with tomatoes from south of the border. There are infinite ways to use this sauce, as the notes describe, but our favorite still involves spooning it over a warm bowl of a spaghetti and twirling away! Honey gets added to the sauce pot to balance the natural acidity of tomatoes and enhance the natural sweetness of the tomatoes; they are a fruit, after all!
Ingredients
Cooking spray
2 spray(s)
Onion
1 medium, finely chopped
Garlic
2 clove(s), minced
Plum tomato
12 medium, finely chopped (reserve juice)
Fresh basil
2 Tbsp, leaves, chopped
Fresh oregano
1 Tbsp, chopped
Fresh thyme
1 tsp, stemmed
Honey
1 tsp
Table salt
½ tsp
Black pepper
½ tsp, freshly ground
Red pepper flakes
¼ tsp
Instructions
1
Spray a large saucepan with nonstick spray and heat over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic; cook, stirring often, until soft, about 4 minutes.
2
Add the tomatoes and all their juice; stir well and continue cooking until they begin to simmer.
3
Stir in the basil, oregano, thyme, honey, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened, about 15 minutes. Serving Size: 1/2 cup.
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