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All-Purpose Tomato Sauce
A simple all-purpose tomato sauce to keep in the freezer for pasta, pizza, baked dinners, meatballs, or the nights when dinner needs to happen without a new plan.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 25 min
- Total
- 35 min
- Serves
- About 4 cups
The recipe card
All-Purpose Tomato Sauce
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 25 min
- Total
- 35 min
- Serves
- About 4 cups
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 28-oz cans whole peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes, optional
- 1 tbsp butter, optional
- torn basil.
Method
- Cook onion in oil over medium heat 6–8 minutes until soft, without browning.
- Add garlic for 30 seconds.
- Add tomatoes, salt, oregano and optional pepper flakes. Simmer uncovered 20–25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until lightly thickened.
- Stir in butter if using and finish with basil.
- Taste and adjust salt. Use for pasta, pizza or baked meatballs. Refrigerate up to 4 days or freeze in meal-size portions up to 3 months.
