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Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter

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5
Photo and Styling by Julia Gartland
Active Time
5 MIN
Total Time
55 MIN
Yield
Serves : 6

By Marcella Hazan

This is the simplest of all sauces to make, and none has a purer, more irresistibly sweet tomato taste. I have known people to skip the pasta and eat the sauce directly out of the pot with a spoon.

Reprinted with permission from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan. Copyright 1992 by Marcella Hazan. Published by Knopf.

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds fresh, ripe tomatoes, blanched, peeled, and roughly chopped, OR 2 cups canned imported Italian plum tomatoes, cut up, with their juice
  • 5 tablespoons butter
  • 1 medium onion, peeled and cut in half
  • Salt
  • 1 to 1 1/2 pounds pasta
  • Freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese for the table

How to Make It

Step

Put either the prepared fresh tomatoes or the canned in a saucepan, add the butter, onion, and salt, and cook uncovered at a very slow, but steady simmer for 45 minutes, or until the fat floats free from the tomato. Stir from time to time, mashing any large piece of tomato in the pan with the back of a wooden spoon. Taste and correct for salt. Discard the onion before tossing the sauce with pasta. Serve with grated Parmesan.

Notes

May be frozen when done. Discard the onion before freezing.

Recommended pasta: This is an unsurpassed sauce for Potato Gnocchi, but it is also delicious with spaghetti, penne, or rigatoni.

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/tomato-sauce-onion-and-butter

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#WorldPizzaDay is January 17th, St Anthony’s Day @oliobasso

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We’re celebrating #WorldPizzaDay by highlighting the close relationship between extra-virgin oil and one of our cuisine’s most iconic creations.

👉Best wishes to all the pizza masters we collaborate with, including Ciro Salvo and Gino Sorbillo, and to all those who love pizza.

Do you know why #WorldPizzaDay is January 17th? Why didn’t pizza makers work on Saint Anthony’s day, patron of fire and then ovens.

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Friday night Italian pizzas @flahavansoats

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No Friday would be complete without a seriously delicious pizza. Check out how easy these gorgeous pizzas are to re-create at home (using our very own Progress Oatlets), and you’ll be making your own Italian fakeaways every Friday night. Ciao! #FlahavansOats

Serves 2 pizza bases|Takes 15 mins

Ingredients:
For the Pizza Bases:
85g Progress Oats
1 large egg white
½ tsp salt
Optional – 1tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp onion powder, 1tbsp grated parmesan or 1tsp nutritional yeast
For the tomato topping:
400g tin chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 tsp dried mixed herbs
1 tsp honey
1 tsp sea salt flakes
Couple of grinds of black pepper

Method:
For the Pizza Bases:
Pre-heat the oven 200C
Combine the oats, egg white, salt and season in a high-speed blender and blitz for 2 minutes until completely blended.
Heat a small heavy based frying pan over a medium heat.
Add one tsp of vegetable oil.
Spread half the oat mixture over the pan and cook for 2 minutes until the mixture firms up.
Move the oat base onto a lined baking sheet and spread over the toppings and bake for 5 minutes until the pizza is cooked through

For the tomato topping:

Drain the tinned tomatoes through a sieve over a bowl, pressing with the back of a ladle until about most of the juice has drained.
Tip the sieved tomatoes into a bowl and stir in the tomato purée, herbs, sugar and plenty of salt and pepper.
Pour the tomato mix into a high-speed blender and blitz for 1 minute.