This tasty and very easy tomato sauce is an excellent, fast topping for any kind of Italian pasta. It only takes 5 minutes to prepare the ingredients, and it’s ready in 30 minutes.
This easy tomato sauce is fresh, tasty, and a far cry from canned or processed tomato sauces. You can use it as is for a quick Italian pasta dinner, or you can enrich it with other ingredients to make a wide variety of sauces (e.g. tuna sauce, vegetable sauces).
How To Serve Your Easy Tomato Sauce
This easy tomato sauce is an excellent topping for any kind of Italian pasta on its own. You can also enrich it with almost anything you like, and you get your own Italian pasta dinner.
Once it’s ready, add some olives, canned tuna, top it with some grated Parmesan cheese, and you get an amazing pasta dish in no time.
As you can see in the second picture below, I served it on pipette rigate paste, adding some olives, blue cheese and grated Parmesan cheese.
My advice is to make a large quantity of this easy tomato sauce and store it in your freezer in small plastic containers. This way you can have a fresh pasta dinner in 10 minutes. I guarantee you it’s much better than any kind of processed food. This is the traditional Italian way to make pasta sauces: store a large quantity in the freezer and use it every night for the famous “primi piatti” pasta dishes.
Easy Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 onions medium-sized
- 2 carrots medium-sized
- 2 stalks celery
- 2 cups tomato purée 600 g, passata di pomodoro
- 6 cloves garlic
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- pepper to taste
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Peel and cut your vegetables. Make a purée of the carrots, onions, celery and 2 cloves of garlic in a blender.Tip: For an even easier version, you can just use onions, and it’ll still taste great.
- Sauté the vegetables in the olive oil for about 10 minutes, until they lose their water content.
- Add the tomato purée (passata di pomodoro) and the remaining 4 cloves of garlic, and let it simmer for 15 minutes over low heat. The longer you cook it, the better it gets. But for a quick meal, it’s totally OK to simmer it for just 15 minutes. Add salt, pepper, basil, and oregano to taste.
