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Michele's Favorite Tomato Sauce

Courses: Sauces
Serves: 1 people

Recipe Ingredients

1/4 cup 59mlOlive oil
4   Onions - chopped
1 lb 454g / 16ozCarrots - cut 1/4" rounds
3/4 cup 177mlWater
3   Garlic cloves
2   Plum tomatoes in tomato puree - (28 oz ea)
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste

Recipe Instructions

In a large non-reactive saucepan heat olive oil. Add onions and carrots and reduce heat to low. Add 1/4 cup of water and garlic. Cover and cook gently until vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes. Stir in tomatoes with puree, using a wooden spoon to break up tomatoes by mashing them against the sides of the saucepan. Add remaining 1/2 cup of water, cover and simmer over low heat for 1 hour, stirring now and then.

Press sauce through a sieve or food mill and discard solids. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Use immediately or ladle into freezer containers. This sauce can freeze up to a year.

This recipe yields 2 quarts of sauce.

Source:
PASTA MONDAY TO FRIDAY with Michele Urvater - From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # PS-6520 broadcast 04-05-1998) - Downloaded from their Web-Site - http://www.foodtv.com

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