Simple Tomato Sauce My Mother In Laws Recipes

SIMPLE TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large casserole pot, heat oil over medium high heat. Add onion and garlic and saute until soft and translucent, about 2 minutes. Add celery and carrots and season with salt and pepper. Saute until all the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, basil, and bay leaves and simmer covered on low heat for 1 hour or until thick. Remove bay leaves and check for seasoning. If sauce still tastes acidic, add unsalted butter, 1 tablespoon at a time to round out the flavors.
• Add half the tomato sauce into the bowl of a food processor. Process until smooth. Continue with remaining tomato sauce.
• If not using all the sauce, allow it to cool completely and pour 1 to 2 cup portions into freezer plastic bags. This will freeze up to 6 months.

CLASSIC TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion, bay leaf, oregano, garlic, and salt. Cook, stirring often, until onion is soft and translucent, about 10 minutes. Add tomato paste and continue cooking 5 minutes more.
• Add tomatoes and cook, stirring constantly, until sauce comes to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour, stirring every 5 minutes or so to prevent burning. Season with salt, if desired. Remove bay leaf before serving.

MY MOTHER'S TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Open the can of tomatoes and pour the juice into a bowl. Use the lid to press against the tomatoes to extract as much juice as possible. In the can, avoiding cutting yourself with the rim, use your hand to squeeze the tomatoes to a pulp. Re-strain out the new juices, and reserve the juice and pulp separately. Fill the empty can half full with water and set aside.
• Heat the olive oil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook with a pinch of salt, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until golden. Add the tomato juices and bring to a boil. Simmer rapidly until the juice thickens, then add the crushed tomato pulp, oregano, the half can of water, bay leaf, and salt and pepper, to taste. Adjust the heat to maintain a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching, until the mixture thickens and reduces to about 3 1/2 cups, about 30 to 45 minutes. Discard the bay leaf.

MOTHER-IN-LAWS SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In large pot brown hamburger and onion.
• Add remaining ingredients, cover and simmer for 1 hour.

SIMPLE TOMATO SAUCE: MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S RECIPE

Steps:

• Use one big pot-- I did not add the meatballs or sausage so that the calories etc. would not be counted.
• However, If you want to add Italian sausage and meatballs, then go to the bottom first.
• If you did the meatballs etc, then add the onions after you are done, if not add a little olive oil to the pan and add the onions.
• Cook on med-high till soft, add the garlic chopped up and cook for one minute, add the white wine to deglaze the pan and scrape any brown bits off the bottom of the pot.
• Add the tomatoes crushing them up slightly with your hand to help break them up.
• Add the tomato paste.
• Take a boat motor blender and puree for about one minute till almost smooth.
• Add all the spices and bring to boil.
• Add one tomato can's worth of water and add back in the sausage and meatballs if you are doing them.
• Cook for two to three hours on low with the top of the pot partially on to let the sauce cook down (get rid of the water you added essentially).
• Serve with pasta, over stuffed peppers, over backed ziti or manicotti uses are limitless.
• I like to freeze mine in three cup plastic containers for use whenever I want it.
• One serving is half a cup of sauce you may use more or less as you desire.
• Meatballs and Sausage here goes:.
• Take Italian sausage and divide into one pound and two pounds.
• Take the casing off all of it, and shape the two pounds into one x two inch rolls.
• Take the one pound of Italian sausage and two pounds of ground turkey and add two eggs, 2 tbsp of milk, 1/2 cup bread crumbs, 1/2 cup grated Parmesan or Romano cheese and mix well.
• Shape into Meatballs.
• Brown the sausage in a little olive oil, and then the meatballs.
• Do not cook all the way through!
• Set aside.