🍲 Crushed Tomato Sauce

Name: Crushed Tomato Sauce
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: ¼ cups olive oil; ½ onion, or an equal amount of shallots; 3 cloves of garlic, minced; 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes (Cento brand is best); 5–6 leaves basil, julienned or minced; 1 tsp salt; Several cranks of ground black pepper; 1 tbsp Italian seasoning (optional)

Italian · 8 ingredients · 6 steps

An easy tomato sauce recipe that's great with pasta and chicken or eggplant parmesan. It also works well with pizza, and as a dip for mozzarella sticks.

30–45 minutesserves 42

Cook for servings as written The source's own quantities, rounded to the nearest mark on a cup or a spoon. A line carrying a second number of its own — a weight in another unit, a count of pieces — is left as written.

Ingredients

¼ cups olive oil
½ onion, or an equal amount of shallots
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes (Cento brand is best)
5–6 leaves basil, julienned or minced
1 tsp salt
Several cranks of ground black pepper
1 tbsp Italian seasoning (optional)

Method

Heat olive oil in skillet or pot over medium-high heat. Add garlic, onions, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning, if desired.
Turn the heat down to low and add tomatoes.
Cook over low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Taste a spoonful of the sauce, and season with salt to taste; taste again and salt as needed.
After it is salted to your taste, stir in the basil and remove from the heat.
Serve however you like and enjoy!

Where this came from. Adapted from Crushed Tomato Sauce in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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