Easy pasta sauce
Delicious homemade whole food fresh tomatoes sauce for that amazing pasta or pizza!
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 70kcal
Cost: 10
Ingredients
- 10 Medium sized tomatoes
- 2 Medium sized onions
- 2 Garlic cloves
- 5 g Fresh oregano leaves Basically the leaves of 3 big stems of oregano. Feel free to replace with basil
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 400 ml Boiling water
- 2 tbsp Olive oil Optional
- 1 teaspoon Coarse pepper Optional
Instructions
- Make sure you got all the ingredients
- Preheat a pot (or saucepan if you don't have a pot) on high temperature
- Mince the garlic, or substitute with 1 teaspoon of garlic powder
- Add 150ml of boiling water to the saucepan, as you cook this sauce, you'll have to add water little by little, since we are not using the oil, the pan should always have enough boiling water, so it does not burn the tomatoes and the rest of the ingredients
- and then add the garlic and leave it for about 1 minute
- Dice the onion in small pieces
- Add the onion to the saucepan and add a little bit of water if it already consumed. Leave this to simmer for about 2 minutes
- Meanwhile, dice the tomatoes in pieces of around 2.5 cm (1 inch). Don't get too crazy measuring, but they should be relatively small. Note: I like to use the whole tomato, however! many chefs recommend to remove the seeds because it might make the sauce a bit bitter
- Add the tomatoes and then add more water to continue the cooking in simmering
- Add only the leaves of the oregano to the saucepan. If you want to include the pepper, add it at this point, as well
- At this point, use a turner to move the sauce every minute or so. Once the tomatoes start to become a sauce, you should use a pestle to mash the tomatoes and make them more "sauce like"
- Continue this process for another 10 minutes until it looks like this
- Add the olive oil once the sauce is done, this will accentuate the flavour in the sauce! that's why I prefer to add it as the last step
- Enjoy with your favorite pizza or pasta
Video
Notes
- Try it without oil first! I was surprised of how amazing and easy to make this sauce is. Remember that oil is mainly empty calories (yes, even from olive oil)
- Use it for your favorite pastas and pizza recipes
- This is an amazing sauce for Italian recipes
- Roasted tomatoes would also work for this recipe very well!
- Calories are without oil!
- If you make it in a pot, it will make it easier as the heat is not escaping easily