Marinara Sauce

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2006, America's Test Kitchen TV

Could we make a sauce with complex but fresh flavors—from scratch—in less than an hour?

SERVES 4 to 6 (Serves Makes 4 cups)

TIME 55 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a multidimensional marinara sauce recipe that would take less than an hour to prepare, we chose canned whole tomatoes for their flavor and texture, hand-crushing them and removing the hard core and stray bits of skin at the same time. W...

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