Description
Give any store bought tomato sauce a serious flavor boost!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup dice onions
- 1 cup diced celery
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- A 24 oz jar of your favorite tomato sauce
- Salt and pepper to taste (I think I used roughly 2 tsp of each)
Instructions
- Soften the onions in olive oil over medium heat (roughly 2 or three minutes).
- Add salt, carrots, and celery and cover for 2 or 3 minutes.
- Add pepper and your jar of tomato sauce.
- Optionally add another tablespoon or two of olive oil.
- Optionally simmer for up to 6 hours.
Notes
• The longer the sauce simmers, the softer the vegetables will be, the more concentrated the flavors will be, and if you added the extra olive oil before simmering, the more the sauce will taste reminiscent of fried tomatoes (which I happen to love).
• Beyond 6 hours, there appears to be no additional benefit to the flavor (if anything, the sauce starts to lose both color and flavor around that point).
• If you want a meat sauce, feel free to add some meat. For this batch, I did just that. (I had some leftover skilpadjies that I thought would go well here)