Lazy cooking
The recipe's been all over the internet for a few years now, but I hadn't tried Marcella Hazan's tomato sauce recipe yet. It looked too easy and kind of blah, to be honest. But the other day I was home, I had the ingredients, and pasta for dinner sounded good... Basically, this is what it is:
Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce
(Serves 4. Unless you like pasta, in which case it's more like 3.)
1 28 oz. can whole peeled tomatoes
5 Tbsp. butter
1 onion (I used a yellow one), cut in half
1/2 tsp. salt
Toss everything into a saucepan and simmer for 45 minutes. You can mash the tomatoes with the back of a spoon to help them break down, but frankly, I don't have the patience for it and just pureed the whole damn thing in the blender once it was done. I didn't remove/discard the onion, because why bother? You've already drained its life force, so you might as well eat its limp, soggy corpse as well. Serve over pasta, with plenty of grated parmesan.
Yeah. There's no garlic. No basil or oregano. Not even pepper. The end result is delicious, a creamy tomato sauce that's surprisingly complex given that there are four ingredients in the whole thing. You don't need much to cover the pasta because a little goes a long way. The nice thing is that I almost always have canned tomatoes, pasta, butter and onions so it doesn't require a special trip to the store for unusual ingredients. Definitely a keeper.
Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce
(Serves 4. Unless you like pasta, in which case it's more like 3.)
1 28 oz. can whole peeled tomatoes
5 Tbsp. butter
1 onion (I used a yellow one), cut in half
1/2 tsp. salt
Toss everything into a saucepan and simmer for 45 minutes. You can mash the tomatoes with the back of a spoon to help them break down, but frankly, I don't have the patience for it and just pureed the whole damn thing in the blender once it was done. I didn't remove/discard the onion, because why bother? You've already drained its life force, so you might as well eat its limp, soggy corpse as well. Serve over pasta, with plenty of grated parmesan.
Yeah. There's no garlic. No basil or oregano. Not even pepper. The end result is delicious, a creamy tomato sauce that's surprisingly complex given that there are four ingredients in the whole thing. You don't need much to cover the pasta because a little goes a long way. The nice thing is that I almost always have canned tomatoes, pasta, butter and onions so it doesn't require a special trip to the store for unusual ingredients. Definitely a keeper.