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Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter

4 INGREDIENTS • 5 STEPS • 1HR 30MINS

Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter

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If you are familiar with Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter, you know it is made with three ingredients, four if you count salt. Here, the ingredients are the same as her sauce, but there’s no scoring of the tomatoes and blanching them to remove their skins, and there’s no discarding of the halved onion at the end. Everything, rather, is puréed together at the end.
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Alexandra's Kitchen
Alexandra Stafford is the blogger behind Alexandra's Kitchen, a food blog featuring mostly simple, sometimes fussy but always seasonal recipes.
http://www.alexandracooks.com/
If you are familiar with Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter, you know it is made with three ingredients, four if you count salt. Here, the ingredients are the same as her sauce, but there’s no scoring of the tomatoes and blanching them to remove their skins, and there’s no discarding of the halved onion at the end. Everything, rather, is puréed together at the end.
1HR 30MINS
Total Time
$2.43
Cost Per Serving
Ingredients
Servings
12
us / metric
Unsalted Butter
1/2 cup
Unsalted Butter
Onion
2
Large Onions, thinly sliced
Tomato
10 cups
Tomatoes, diced
Kosher Salt
1 tsp
Kosher Salt
plus more to taste
Nutrition Per Serving
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Calories
104
Fat
7.7 g
Protein
1.6 g
Carbs
8.2 g
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Alexandra Stafford is the blogger behind Alexandra's Kitchen, a food blog featuring mostly simple, sometimes fussy but always seasonal recipes.
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Yields 2 quarts.
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step 1
Melt the Unsalted Butter (1/2 cup) over medium heat in a large pot. Add the Onions (2) and cook gently, lowering the heat if necessary, until the onions are soft, about 15 minutes.
step 1 Melt the Unsalted Butter (1/2 cup) over medium heat in a large pot. Add the Onions (2) and cook gently, lowering the heat if necessary, until the onions are soft, about 15 minutes.
step 2
Add the Tomatoes (10 cups) and Kosher Salt (1 tsp) to the pot and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, stirring every so often to ensure the onion isn't scorching on the bottom of the pan.
step 2 Add the Tomatoes (10 cups) and Kosher Salt (1 tsp) to the pot and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, stirring every so often to ensure the onion isn't scorching on the bottom of the pan.
step 3
Once the mixture is simmering, lower the temperature, so the mixture is gently bubbling. Simmer for about an hour, stirring occasionally until the mixture has reduced and feels somewhat thick as you run a spoon through it.
step 3 Once the mixture is simmering, lower the temperature, so the mixture is gently bubbling. Simmer for about an hour, stirring occasionally until the mixture has reduced and feels somewhat thick as you run a spoon through it.
step 4
Purée with an immersion blender or transfer mixture to a food processor or blender and purée until smooth. Taste. Add more salt to taste.
step 4 Purée with an immersion blender or transfer mixture to a food processor or blender and purée until smooth. Taste. Add more salt to taste.
step 5
Once cool, transfer to storage containers and refrigerate for up to a week or freeze for months.
step 5 Once cool, transfer to storage containers and refrigerate for up to a week or freeze for months.
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