My "base for Everything" Zippy Marinara Sauce
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
6 cups
ingredients
- 2⁄3 cup extra virgin olive oil (use the good stuff)
- 2 onions, minced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 6 (14 ounce) cans diced Italian tomatoes, with juices ((imported))
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons dried oregano
- 2 tablespoons dried basil
- 1⁄8 teaspoon sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons concentrated peperoncino picante sauce (OR 1 tsp red pepper flakes, to taste)
- salt and pepper
directions
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat.
- Add the onions and cook for five minutes or until they become translucent.
- Add the garlic (and the red pepper flakes, if using) and cook for one minute.
- Add the canned tomatoes and stir well.
- Add the oregano, basil, sugar, peperoncino (if using), salt and pepper.
- Make sure you crumble the dried spices in your hand when you add them to release the essential oils.
- Stir well again.
- Bring to a simmer and cook, uncovered, for one hour.
- Sauce will cook down a bit and thicken.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
FlemishMinx
Belgium
I am an American married to a Belgian, and have lived in Belgium since December 1999. Cooking is my major hobby. I'm also an avid reader, but I have difficulty finding the time. I love to travel. Since moving to Europe I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to go a couple of times per year to Paris, as well as having visited London, Rome, Florence, Naples, Amsterdam, and of course Brussels and Antwerp. I've seen at least parts of most regions of France, as well as parts of Germany, Austria, a great deal of Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Luxembourg, and Monaco. I'm absolutely in love with the Bay of Naples and Sorrento coast areas of Italy, which my husband and I recently re-visited on a trip that included Rome, Puglia, Umbria and Marche. I'm still looking forward to Ireland, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic . . . the list is too long ! One of the bonuses of travel is getting to taste the local cuisine, and afterward trying to figure out how to duplicate it at home.
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