My Most Favorite Pasta Sauce Recipe

This sauce serves as my comfort food, I love everything about it: it tastes fabulous, calls for very few ingredients and doesn't require more than 15 minutes of cooking. Yup, it's perfect.

It calls for a little bit of butter and a dash of cream, but seriously, it's worth it... I don't know about you but butter doesn't really bother me as long as it is used in moderation (a little goes a long way).

A good friend of mine taught me how to make this sauce but her version was much more complicated (I actually forgot all the steps she used so I simplified it down to this basic recipe and it still tastes fantastic). Her version used some chicken in the sauce - I am preferring the vegetarian version of this, but feel free to add whatever protein to it you like.


Ingredients:
1 tsp butter
1 onion, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces
6 tomatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
Salt
2 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp cream

On a medium flame, melt the butter in a large saucepan. Add the chopped onions and keep stirring until the onions get translucent. Add a pinch of salt to the onions. Next add the tomatoes to the onions and season with more salt (taste so you make sure you aren't overdoing the salt). Lower the heat and cover the pan allowing the sauce to simmer for a few minutes.

Next, add the Italian seasoning, stir and cover the pan again until the tomatoes turn into a "saucy" consistency. If it gets a bit dry add some hot water (not too much).

Add the cream (as much as you like -- I prefer not to use more than 1 tsp).

Taste and season to your liking.

Serves 4

If you liked this recipe then you must try:
Penne Arrabiata
Turkish Ground Beef and Yogurt Pasta
Homemade Pesto

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