Italian Tomato Pasta Sauce Recipe

Fresh tomato spaghetti sauce!

This tomato pasta sauce (or salsa) made with fresh tomatoes and basil is an ultimate Mediterranean sauce recipe easy and tasty.

Even more if made during summer, when tomatoes are tasty and fragrant to be best preserved for winter.

Tomato Pasta Sauce


If you need to make a quick pasta sauce I recommend you to use the best canned San Marzano Tomatoes available.

Ingredients: for about 2 lb (kg 1) of sauce

Tomatoes
    - 2 lb (kg.1) tomatoes
    - 8 leaves of fresh basil
    - 3 tbsp (ml.45) olive oil
    - salt

To prepare this tomato sauce you can buy cluster fresh tomatoes.

Food Mill
Recommended food mill to help you make tomato sauce more easily.

Preparation: easy 30 minutes

1. Wash very well all the tomatoes, and halve them. Squeeze lightly and let the seeds come out.

Tomato Sauce

Tomato Sauce

2. Put the halved tomatoes into a sauce pan covered by a lid. Start cooking over low heat until they are reduced to a pulp.

Tomato Sauce

3. At this point, pass tomatoes through a Food Mill to converge all the sauce into a bowl.

Tomato Sauce

4. Add salt and olive oil to the sauce, and let it consume at high flame until the desired thickness. Then turn off the heat and add the whole basil leaves or coarsely chopped by hand.

Tomato Sauce

Your fresh tomato spaghetti sauce is ready.




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