{"id":456,"date":"2011-06-23T07:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-06-23T07:53:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:53:03","slug":"sauteed-tomato-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Sauteed Tomato Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite places to get recipes is the Splendid Table<\/a> by Lynne Rossetto Kasper. \u00a0I have her book, How To Eat Supper<\/a> (which is fantastic), and listen to her weekly radio show<\/a> (via podcast). \u00a0I also have subscribed to her weekly email newsletter<\/a>, which sends weekly recipes. \u00a0This recipe is from her newsletter on September 2, 2009 — a long time ago, so the actual recipe is no longer posted on the site.<\/p>\n

I’ve made this recipe several times and love it every time. \u00a0I also think it is possibly the prettiest tomato sauce you could hope for. \u00a0It is not necessarily a thick sauce — no tomato paste used — but it really shows off the tomatoes!<\/p>\n

Pasta with a Last Hurrah Tomato Saut\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prep time: <\/strong>5-10 minutes
\nTotal:<\/strong> 40-ish minutes
\nServes: <\/strong>3-4 as a main dish<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong>
\nOlive oil (enough to film the bottom of the pan)
\n1\/2 medium onion, diced
\n3-inch branch of fresh rosemary (also works to substitute a few branches of fresh thyme)
\n6 large fresh basil leaves, torn
\nSalt & fresh ground pepper
\n1\/4 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes (sometimes I leave this out when I want a sweeter sauce)
\n3 large cloves of garlic, thin sliced (I used minced)
\n1-1\/2 lbs. rich-flavored tomatoes, chopped (I use a variety of heirlooms in different colors)
\n1-1\/2 lbs. or 2 pint baskets good tasting cherry tomatoes, halved (I love those black\/purple cherry tomatoes)
\n1\/4 teaspoon sugar (when I want a sweeter sauce, I put in up to 1 teaspoon)
\n1 lb. linguine or spaghetti<\/p>\n

Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Generously film the bottom of a 12-inch straight-sided saut\u00e9 pan with olive oil and heat it over medium-high. \u00a0Add onions, rosemary, basil, a light sprinkling of salt, several grounds of black pepper, and the hot pepper. \u00a0Saut\u00e9 onions until they soften.<\/p>\n

2. Turn the heat to high. \u00a0Stir in garlic, tomatoes and sugar. \u00a0Saut\u00e9, stirring often and squashing down the tomatoes with the back of a wooden spatula until they are almost browning. \u00a0When thick, taste for seasoning and remove from heat, cover, and let stand 15 minutes for the flavors to mingle.<\/p>\n

3. Cook the pasta in heavily salted, fiercely boiling water, stirring often, until tender yet firm to the bite. \u00a0(Lynne recommends at this point for you to take the sauce and run it through a food mill, but I have never done that.\u00a0\u00a0I just eat it chunky.)<\/em> Drain the pasta. \u00a0Toss with the sauce and serve immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite places to get recipes is the Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper. \u00a0I have her book, How To Eat Supper (which is fantastic), and listen to her weekly radio show (via podcast). \u00a0I also have subscribed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,120,154,234,236,253,291,295,301,305,330,341,357,368],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}