Italian Tomato Sauce

This sauce will change your life. Luckily, it is easy to make and lends such an incredibly rich flavor.  This sauce takes about an hour to prepare which makes it perfect for weekend cooking.

DifficultyBeginnerTotal Time1 hr

Makes About 3 Cups

Ingredients
 Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 2 tbsp
 Organic Garlic Cloves - 4 halved
 Organic Yellow Onion - 1 large, quartered
 Fresh Rosemary - leaves from one sprig
 Bay Leaf - 1
 Red Hot Sauce - 1 ½ tsp
 Strained Tomatoes - 3 cups (see Notes)
 Grass Fed Unsalted Butter - ½ cup, cut into cubes
 Kosher Salt - 2 tsp
Instructions
1

Prepare the veggies:
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Add the garlic, onion, rosemary, bay leaf and hot sauce and cook until the onion is translucent, about 10 minutes. Do not let the onion brown.

2

Make the sauce:
Add the tomatoes and butter and simmer, stirring occasionally until the sauce is slightly thick, about 45 minutes. Season with salt.

3

Strain the sauce:
Set a fine-mesh strainer over a large bowl and pour the sauce into the strainer. Using a spatula, press down on the veggies to strain out as much of the tomato sauce and flavor as possible. Discard the solids in the strainer.

4

Serve the sauce:
Remove from the heat and ladle the sauce over your favorite lectin free pasta.

Notes:  Because the skins and seeds of a tomato contain lectins, only use tomato products that practice removing the skins and seeds in their preparation.

Related Recipes:  Italian Sauced Penne

Ingredients

Ingredients
 Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 2 tbsp
 Organic Garlic Cloves - 4 halved
 Organic Yellow Onion - 1 large, quartered
 Fresh Rosemary - leaves from one sprig
 Bay Leaf - 1
 Red Hot Sauce - 1 ½ tsp
 Strained Tomatoes - 3 cups (see Notes)
 Grass Fed Unsalted Butter - ½ cup, cut into cubes
 Kosher Salt - 2 tsp

Directions

Instructions
1

Prepare the veggies:
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Add the garlic, onion, rosemary, bay leaf and hot sauce and cook until the onion is translucent, about 10 minutes. Do not let the onion brown.

2

Make the sauce:
Add the tomatoes and butter and simmer, stirring occasionally until the sauce is slightly thick, about 45 minutes. Season with salt.

3

Strain the sauce:
Set a fine-mesh strainer over a large bowl and pour the sauce into the strainer. Using a spatula, press down on the veggies to strain out as much of the tomato sauce and flavor as possible. Discard the solids in the strainer.

4

Serve the sauce:
Remove from the heat and ladle the sauce over your favorite lectin free pasta.

Notes

Italian Tomato Sauce
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