Pasta Sauce Not necessarily cheap but easy, fast and SO GOOD!

3boys2anglz · 11:06 AM

Tyler Florence's Spicy Tomato Sauce:

1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
3 garlic cloves, minced (I use the jarred chopped garlic)
1 cup black olives, pitted and roughly chopped (I don't use, DH doesn't like)
1 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes (I use very little because of the kids but you can add more or less)
3 tablespoons capers, drained (Don't recommend leaving out-totally alters the taste)
4 (28-ounce) cans tomato sauce (I was using whole tomatoes but like the taste just as well w/ regular tomato sauce and it's not as watery)
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, hand torn (Great if you grow it-don't recommend dried basil, completely changes taste)
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Saute garlic, olives, red pepper flakes, and capers in olive oil. Hand crush tomatoes and add to sauteed mix. Tear basil into sauce and simmer.

We've served it over any type of pasta, used in lasagna, eggplant parmasan, on homemade pizza, with grilled italian sausage and have been known to just eat it with a spoon! We added hamburger to it once but didn't like how it altered the taste. Once I took the plunge and made it once, there was no turning back! I make quadruple batches and freeze it. Even my pickiest eater loves it.

penelope · 10-03-2007, 03:24 PM

Ok, I have been meaning to try this sauce. I bought the capers about a week ago. I started to make this today, and realized there is no way I can make it the same. I have dried basil. And my son and husband won't spaghetti without meat. Plus, I usually put sugar in the sauce to take out some of the acidic taste. I have already started the sauce and have already added everything but the basi, and black olives because no one here eats them but me, and I didn't have any on hand.
Wish me luck, I hope it turns out. I think I will try making it another time excatly how you posted it.

3boys2anglz · 10-24-2007, 11:03 AM

I just saw this. How did it turn out? I'm sure it was fine.

We don't do spaghetti w/out meat either but didn't like how adding hamburger changed the taste. We just grill Italian sausage and serve it on top.