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elleng

(130,956 posts) Sun Jun 14, 2015, 04:50 PM Jun 2015

Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce

This is perhaps the most famous recipe created by Marcella Hazan, the cookbook author who changed how Americans cook Italian food. It also may be her easiest. Use your favorite canned tomatoes for this and don’t be scared off by the butter. It gives the sauce an unparalleled velvety richness.

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Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce (Original Post) elleng Jun 2015 OP

Simple sauce does not need sugar. Paper Roses Jun 2015 #1

Paper Roses

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1. Simple sauce does not need sugar.

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Sun Jun 14, 2015, 05:04 PM

Jun 2015

This old (1/2) Italian swears it is not needed.

Any large canned whole tomatoes, some chopped onion, a little parsley, whole small can tomato paste. Mix well to break up paste and the tomato chunks. Stir as sauce simmers.

Simmer for a while---at least an hour. In the meantime, make the meatballs. I cook mine in the oven. Just as good, less fat, no mess. Simple recipe will do.

Brown any other meats you might want to use. Add to sauce.
Simmer a little longer. Add water as needed. I don't like a thick sauce so I always end up adding at least a cup of water, maybe more.
Done!

Enjoy dinner and freeze the leftover sauce for another time.

My Italian grandmother and my mother would both scream at the thought of sugar in the sauce.

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