Author Notes
Sometimes you just want a quick red sauce to line a baking dish or heat up with some pasta, and you do not feel like thawing a lump of sugo from the freezer. I cannot stand looking at the salt and sugar in the jars of sauce at the store... so this is pretty fast and it better. In fact, if you do not use the onions, it is pretty much on the same timescale as opening a jar. —Brian Coppola
Ingredients
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42 ounces
peeled San Marzano tomatoes (28 oz and 14 oz cans)
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1
sweet onion, diced finely and caramelized
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2 tablespoons
minced garlic
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2 tablespoons
oregano leaves
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2 tablespoons
basil leaves
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1 tablespoon
black pepper
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1/4 cup
EVOO
Directions
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Caramelize the onions in a small amount of hot oil. Near the end, add the garlic to lightly brown.
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Pour the contents of the tomato cans into a food processor.
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Add the spices, the oil, and the onions and garlic.
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Process the mixture to puree consistency.
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Can be used in dishes as is. I line the bottom of pans for (low carb crepe-based) manicotti, or use for layering with "low carb crepe-based lasagne), or heating for a few minutes with cooked (garbanzo-based) pastas.
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The before-cooking, crepe-based manicotti are shown in the picture, because an image of sauce alone was just too boring.
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