All-Purpose Tomato Sauce

Name: All-Purpose Tomato Sauce
Yield: Serves 6 (Makes about 2 cups)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 large clove, garlic, minced; 3 tablespoons, olive oil; 2 tablespoons, tomato paste; 1 (28-ounce) can, tomatoes, juice reserved, tomatoes seeded, then crushed; 2 - 3 , fresh basil leaves, shredded, or 1/2 teaspoon dried

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1994

SERVES6 (Makes about 2 cups)

TIME40 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For some simple tomato sauce recipes based on just three ingredients (tomatoes, olive oil or butter, and salt), we found the following techniques essential: First, we removed the excess seeds, which are bitter and have an unappealing textur...

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