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Slow-cooked Tomato Sauce

by Ruth Rogers, Sian Wyn Owen, Joseph Trivelli, Rose Gray from River Cafe 30

A good tomato sauce is the backbone of Italian cooking, and this classic and simple recipe by The River Cafe will help you master the perfect sauce once and for all.

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Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers, Sian Wyn Owen, Joseph Trivelli

Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil
2 medium red onions, peeled and sliced as thinly as possible into rounds
2 garlic cloves, peeled and cut into slivers
2 x 1kg jars of peeled plum tomatoes, drained of their juices

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan or frying pan, add the onions and cook over a low heat until they are very soft. This will take at least 40 minutes – the onions must eventually disappear into the tomato sauce. Some 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add the garlic.

Now add the tomatoes and stir to break them up. Season with sea salt and black pepper. Cook slowly, stirring occasionally, for at least 1½ hours. When the sauce is ready, it will be dark red and extremely thick, with no juice at all, and the oil will have come to the surface. Serve hot.

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