Homemade Tomato Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 small onion, roughly chopped
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 6 roma tomatoes, woody stems removed
• 3 garlic cloves, smashed
• 2 1/2 cups beef stock
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon italian seasoning
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 in a large saucepan, add butter, brown sugar, and onions, cook on medium high heat until onions are soft and caramelized.
• 2 add tomatoes in a single layer, along with garlic.
• 3 pour in enough stock to cover tomatoes 2/3 of the way up.
• 4 stir in tomato paste until desolved.
• 5 occasionally roll over tomatoes for even cooking, until the skins of the tomato start to fall off.
• 6 with a wooden spoon crush tomatoes, and continue to stir until tomatoes break down into bite sized piece and the stock has reduced by about half.
• 7 now, break out the siv and put it on top of a large bowl.
• 8 now, ladle in some of the sauce and push through the siv with a wooden spoon, occasionally scraping the bottom of the siv. you'll notice that the onion, tomato, and even the big chunks of garlic get pushed through, leaving behind the tomato skins.
• 9 do this in batches till you've sivved all of the sauce.
• 10 if the sauce is still too thin, return to the sauce pan and reduce until desired thickness.
• 11 turn off heat and stir in extra virgin olive oil, italian seasoning, and salt and pepper to taste.