Pasta Sauce
A traditional pasta sauce is a tomato-based sauce. It is often thicker than other types of sauces, and it's generally made with crushed tomatoes. A basic pasta-sauce recipe is a blend of tomato purée and other ingredients. Some sauces contain tomato chunks, while others are pureed. A spaghetti sauce is often made with ground beef or Italian sausage.
Ingredients
- tomatoes chopped
- red onions chopped
- garlic chopped
- ground pork or ground beef or stripped chicken
- herbs and spices oregano, basil powder, black pepper powder, chili powder
- pasta
- salt and fish sauce to taste
- green spring onions for garnish optional
Instructions
Let's start cooking pasta:
- Put a generous amount of salt in the pasta water so the pasta may acquire flavor. Drain the pasta when nearly cooked (about 80% done). Set aside both pasta and pasta water separately. We will use the pasta water in cooking the sauce for this home-made pasta sauce recipe.
Let's start cooking pasta sauce:
- Saute' a portion of the crushed garlic in olive oil.
- Add the ground pork. Any protein would do, i.e. pork, beef or chicken . Set aside when cooked.
- Saute' the rest of the garlic.
- Add the red onions and tomatoes.
- Add some pasta water to the tomato mixture to prevent it from drying up.
- Lower the stove to medium heat and allow the tomatoes to juice.
- Add the cooked pork. Mix well.
- Season the home-made pasta sauce with spices. I used basil powder, oregano leaves and black pepper powder. If you like your home-made pasta sauce recipe hot and spicy, add some chili powder.
- Season with fish sauce to your preference.
- Add the pasta. Let it simmer until the pasta is completely cooked. The pasta should be able to absorb the flavor of the sauce as it cooks.
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Notes
Try cooking pasta sauce with fresh ingredients. It's simple when you know the basic! Remember me when you start cooking pasta sauce for your family.