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Tomato Sauce for Spaghetti

A plain meat-light spaghetti sauce: salt pork or bacon gives a little savory depth, and carrot, celery and onion melt into chopped tomatoes with bay and cloves.

  • YieldServes 4 over pasta
  • Hands-on25 min
  • Total3 h 13 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

  • 50 gsalt pork, minced, or 1 to 2 slices of bacon, chopped
  • 60 gcarrot, chopped, about 1/2 cup
  • 50 gcelery, chopped, about 1/2 cup
  • 1onion, small, chopped
  • 900 gripe tomatoes, chopped, about 1 quart
  • 1 leafbay leaf
  • 5whole cloves
  • to tastesalt
  • to tasteblack pepper

To serve

  • 400 gspaghetti
  • 40 gParmesan, grated
  • 1 tbspfresh parsley, choppedoptional

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Dairy
  • Celery
  • Wheat
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Tomato
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Carrot
  • Parsley
  • Bay leaf
  • Black and white pepper
  • Clove
  • All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
  • Pork
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
  • Tyramine

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Sour / bright
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh
  • Aromatic spice

Texture

  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Stovetop
  • Slow cooker

Season

  • Summer
  • Fall

Occasion

  • Weeknight

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • Over 3 hours total
  • Difficulty 1
  • Make-ahead friendly
  • Kid-friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: moderate
  • Protein: moderate
  • Carbs: high
  • Fat: moderate
  • Fiber: moderate
  • Sodium: moderate

Budget

  • Budget: low

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