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Italian · Sauce / condiment
Easy Red Sauce
An everyday tomato sauce built on butter and olive oil with softened onion, garlic, oregano and a hint of chilli, reduced for half an hour until thick and sweet; the base for pastas, parmigianas and braises.
- YieldMakes about 1 litre, enough for 450 g pasta
- Hands-on12 min
- Total42 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 30 mlextra-virgin olive oil
- 30 gunsalted butter
- 1medium onion, finely diced (about 150 g)
- 2 clovesgarlic, medium, grated
- ½ tspdried oregano
- 1 pinchred pepper flakes
- 800 gcanned whole tomatoes in juice, crushed into rough 1 cm pieces
- 1 sprigfresh basiloptional
- to tastekosher salt
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