Aromatic Tomato Sauce

Name: Aromatic Tomato Sauce
Yield: Serves 6 to 8 (Makes 2 1/2 cups)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1 , small red onion, or small white onion, minced; 1 , medium carrot, peeled and minced; 1 medium rib, celery, minced; 3 tablespoons, tomato paste; 1 (28-ounce) can, tomatoes, in juice, juice reserved, tomatoes seeded, then crushed; 1/4 cup, red wine

0 comments

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1994

SERVES6 to 8 (Makes 2 1/2 cups)

TIME1¼ hours

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...

This is a members' feature.