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Pizza-perfect homemade tomato sauce
It's time to make comfort food the right way.
SERVES
2
TO
3
Ingredients
- 100 milliliters good olive oil
- 1 large sweet white or Spanish onion, diced rather fine
- 6 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
- 50 grams chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 2 bay leaves
- Basil stalks, cleaned, washed and tied
- 2 ribs of celery peeled and shredded
- 1 carrot, finely shredded
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 1 liter canned whole tomatoes, crushed by hand
- Salt to taste
Directions
- Heat the olive oil, then add the onion, cooking for a few minutes or until translucent. Add the garlic afterward and cook for another minute or two.
- Add the thyme, basil, carrot, celery and bay leaf and cook five minutes, until the celery and carrot is quite soft.
- Add the tomatoes, honey and juice and bring to a boil, skim off any froth, and continuously stir. Lower the heat and simmer for about 30 minutes until thick. Salt to taste.
