SPAGHETTI SAUCE
Very easy and cheap spaghetti sauce
This recipe is from Consumer Reports, which rated it as much better than
most bottled sauces!and cheaper.
You can add whatever additional ingredients you like (mushrooms, tomatoes,
etc.) to this basic recipe.
Ingredients
(Serves 4)
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 small onion,
chopped
- 28 oz crushed tomatoes
- 16 oz tomato paste
- 1 cup water
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 3/4 tsp salt
(or less to taste)
- oregano
(optional)
Procedure
-
Brown the garlic in the olive oil in a
6-quart
pan.
-
Add the onion and brown until transparent.
(You can sautae a tomato in here also if you want.)
-
Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring often.
(Longer cooking won't hurt.)
Notes
It is better than bottled sauces!
Rating
Difficulty:
easy.
Time:
5 minutes chopping, 30 or more minutes cooking.
Precision:
no need to measure.
Contributor
Evelyn C. Leeper
...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl
AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ
Recipe last modified: 23 Jan 86
Original header
From: ecl@mtgzz (Evelyn C. Leeper)
Newsgroups: mod.recipes
Subject: RECIPE: Spaghetti sauce
Date: 14 Feb 86 06:15:17 GMT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ
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