I want to make amazing pasta sauce, help me please.

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Have just made Ant Worral-Thompsons version and it was rank! Anyone willing to share their tried and tested recipes?

Tomato-y sauce or creamy?

I like

pancetta, garlic, tin tomatoes and big handfuls of fresh basil .. bring to boil simmer for 20 mins and mouli

Tomato-y please. Which ever recipe I try they always taste bitter.

Delia's Puttanesca is excellent, and very quick and easy - http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/pasta-puttanesca-tarts-spaghetti,1319,RC.html here

You have to use Napolina tomatoes, cheap tomaotes just don't work.

Tiny splash of balsamic vinegar.

sorry here

add a spoon of molasses.... or brown suger if you don't have any.

much nicer and doesn't have that acidy tomato taste

1 onion
1 garlic clove
1 red pepper
half a bag of spinach

Fry in olive oil, add 2 tins of tomatoes, tomato puree, oregano and basil.

Simmer and then liquidise, then add a t-spoon of sugar- this will reduce the bitterness of the tomatoes.

Brown mince in a frying pan then add to sauce and simmer. Or sometimes I add meatballs to it.

tomatoes even.

tsp sugar removes the bitterness of tinned tomatoes

i use tinned toms, chopped red onion, bacon, cherry toms cut in half, splash of balsamic vinger, 2 tbsps brown sugar, 3 cloves of garlic, oregano and basil.

oh yes we like red pepper in ours too.

i have one
hold on

Sorry Miss, I misspelt tomatoes in my first post.

Tomato sauce

Dice an onion really small and sweat it slowly in oil till it softens (low heat) then add a tablespoon of tom puree and garlic (? 1 clove)

Stir around briefly

Add a splash of old wine if you have it to deglaze the pan, then add a carton of passata and some sugar to taste. I also add a drop of Tabasco. It will look pretty unexciting a tthis point?BUT let it simmer slowly for 30 mins or until it thickens and turns dark red and it goes very sweet and nice.

Add veg to taste and simmer or parmesan on top of pasta.

Thank you all.

Lately, we have been using the tomato sauce from the recent Jamie at Home series. It is quite basic but really good and can be used as a pasta sauce or for a pizza. Look Here.
It makes quite a lot so I put it in jars in the fridge and we use it through the week.

"it makes quite a lot" LOL do you think that might be the 3 tins of tomatoes

You are right twiglett - just between you an me I only use 2 tins (dont tell Jamie) and that is plenty for us

I was once told the key to no bitter tomato sauce is to use whole tinned tomatoes and only break them up after they´d simmered for about half an hour.

Onion, Mince, stock cube, tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, garlic, basil, oregano salt and pepper, worcester sauce. Basic pasta sauce. Used to use the jars of sauce - what a con they are!

ah so chopped tomatoes will be bitter but whole ones won't. that's interesting.

If you add the garlic once the toms have really got cooking you don't get the bitterness and you get a good powerful blast of flavour.