Tomato Sauce with Porcini Mushrooms

Name: Tomato Sauce with Porcini Mushrooms
Yield: Enough for 1 pound of pasta
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, olive oil; 1 , medium onion, minced; 1 rib, celery, minced; 1 , small carrot peeled and minced; 1 ounce, dried porcini mushrooms, rehydrated, strained, and chopped coarse; soaking liquid reserved; 1 teaspoon, table salt; , (28 ounce) can whole tomatoes (preferably plum), packed in juice, drained, seeded, and chopped; 3 tablespoons, minced fresh parsley leaves

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 1997

SERVESEnough for 1 pound of pasta

TIME45 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted to create a dried porcini mushroom sauce recipe for pasta with a robust, earthy flavor. We found that a soak of 20 minutes in hot tap water was enough to soften the mushrooms for our porcini sauce recipe, and five or 10 minutes mo...

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