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'Can't live without' Anna's tomato pasta sauce
by Salfromozfrom Abergele Nth Wales
Recipe Story
In Australia my daughters attended a playgroup and kinder where an Aus mum, Anna, married to an Italian man made the tomato sauce for a pasta lunch every Wednesday. Her mother in law had taught her to make this very simple rich sauce. My problems started when my kids would not eat my pasta, only 'Anna's sauce'. I had to beg and plead the recipe out of Anna to enable the family to eat our normal ration of pasta. This sauce is now the mainstay of our weekly menu and to this day the highest compliment I get is 'It's as good as Anna's sauce mum' This sauce can be used for anything with a tomato base, pizza, shepherds pie, gravy, meatballs.... It can be dressed up or served plain.
Servings:
Plenty for at least 6 bowls of pastaLevel of difficulty:
EasyIngredients
Half an onion, diced very small
1 clove of garlic, minced or diced very small
1 cup (or more) olive oil
2 packets/jars/bottles of plain passata
1 bay leaf
pinch salt
Method
In a large saucepan, heat the olive oil, onion and garlic gently on the stove. Heat should be as low as possible, you do not want the garlic or onions browning at all, just getting very soft. This can take 15-20mins. Add passata and bayleaf, stir well and let simmer for at least 15mins, longer if you have the time. Add to freshly cooked pasta and top with parmesan cheese.
To spice this up, melt some anchovies with the onions and garlic, add chilli with the passata and capers just before serving. The possibilities are endless.
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Gin 2, 30 Apr 2007 6:02pm
This recipe sounds lovely, one drawback though, the amount of olive oil. Could I get away with using a lot less. (I am on a diet).
Lemonchello, 23 Apr 2007 8:58pm
Hi this sounds great and I would love to try it for my children. Could you possibly tell me the jar size of the passata
thanks
Rebecca
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