Marinara Sauce Using Food Mill Recipe 385

Steps:

• Combine 3 tablespoons olive oil, 6 thinly sliced garlic cloves and a pinch of red pepper flakes in a large skillet and cook over medium-low heat until the garlic is golden, about 6 minutes. Crush a 28-ounce can of San Marzano plum tomatoes into the skillet with your hands; rinse the can with about 1 cup water and add to the sauce. Add a handful of torn basil leaves and season with salt. Increase the heat to medium and simmer, uncovered, until thick, 20 to 25 minutes. Toss with 1 pound cooked pasta (makes 4 cups sauce).

Steps:

• Pulse the chopped tomatoes in a food processor fitted with the steel blade, or pass through the medium blade of a food mill before you begin. Heat the oil over medium heat in a large, wide nonstick skillet or saucepan and add the garlic. Cook, stirring, for 30 seconds to a minute, until it begins to smell fragrant, and add the tomatoes and their juice, the sugar, salt, and basil sprigs. Stir and turn up the heat. When the tomatoes begin to bubble, lower the heat to medium and cook, stirring often, until thick and fragrant, 15 to 20 minutes, or longer if necessary. Remove the basil sprigs and wipe any sauce adhering to them back into the pan. Taste and adjust seasonings. Stir in the slivered basil.

Steps:

• Coat a large saucepot with olive oil and add the pancetta. Bring the pot to a medium-high heat and cook the pancetta for 4 to 5 minutes. Add the onions, season generously with salt and stir to coat with olive oil. Cook the onions for 6 to 7 minutes stirring frequently. The onions should become very soft and aromatic but have no color. Add the garlic and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes stirring frequently.
• Pass the tomatoes through the food mill. Be sure to pass all of the pulp through the holes leaving only the stems and the seeds, and be sure to scrape the pulp off of the bottom of the food mill. That's all of the big money stuff! Add the tomatoes to the pot and rinse out 1 of the empty tomato cans with water and add that water to the pot (about 2 to 3 cups). Season generously with salt and TASTE IT!!!! Tomatoes take a lot of salt. Season in baby steps and taste every step of the way. Cook the sauce for 2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally and tasting frequently.
• Use the sauce right away on pasta or for any other tomato sauce need. This sauce can also be cooled and stored in the refrigerator for a few days and freezes really well.

Steps:

• In a wide, heavy skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic, cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in tomatoes, basil, sugar and salt; increase the heat to medium-high. When the tomatoes are bubbling briskly, stir and reduce the heat to a gentle simmer. Cook stirring occasionally until the tomatoes have separated from their skins and cooked down to a thick sauce, 30 minutes to an hour. Remove the basil sprigs. Press the sauce into a bowl through a food mill fitted with the fine blade. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Use at once, refrigerate for up to 4 days, or freeze.

Steps:

• Heat a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the oil and allow it to warm for 1 minute, then add the garlic and cook, stirring constantly, until golden brown and fragrant, 2 minutes.
• Stir in the crushed tomatoes, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper and crushed red pepper flakes if desired. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the flavors meld, 7 minutes. Season with salt, pepper or sugar to taste.

Steps:

• Brown beef, and drain.
• Saute all vegetables in 1/2 cup olive oil, and 1/2 cup butter.
• Add beef to vegetables in a large pot.
• Add rest of the ingredients.
• Simmer 2-4 hours.

Steps:

• In a large pot cook onion, celery, and carrots in oil until tender (around 20 minutes).
• Stir a few times and add garlic.
• Cook for 2 more minutes.
• Add tomatoes, sugar, and pepper and stir.
• Put through a food mill if you would like a smoother sauce or whirl in a food processor.
• Add remaining seasonings except salt and cook to desired consistency.
• Add salt and remove bay leaf.
• Pack into hot clean jars leaving 1/2 inch head space.
• Process for 45 minutes (altitudes up to 1000 feet).
• Yield depends on how much you cook it down, but it will make approximately 8 pint jars.