Simple sauce made with plump San Marzano tomatoes, fresh basil, onion and garlic.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ medium Spanish onion, sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, sliced
- 1 can (28oz/796ml) San Marzano tomatoes
- Leaves from 1 bunch basil
- 1 tsp cracked black pepper
- Salt
DIRECTIONS
- Sweat the onions in the oil until wilted.
- Add the garlic and sweat from another 3 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, half the basil (on the stem) and the pepper; cover and simmer for 60 mins.
- Remove the basil.
- Pass through a food mill fitted with a medium disc into a clean pot, or use an immersion blender.
- Return to a simmer and add the remaining basil leaves and salt to taste.
