The Secret to Amazing Tomato Sauce: Oven Bake
If you want to take your favorite tomato sauce recipe to the next level, baking it in the oven will enhance its flavor and require less babysitting.
Everyone should know how to make some simple tomato or marinara sauce. It’s delicious, versatile, and easy to make if you get the basics right. If you’re looking for an easy way to improve your favorite tomato sauce, Food52’s Kristen Miglor suggests skipping the boil and heading to the oven:
It starts like sauces do: fry onions and garlic, add some chili flakes, then drink, then tomatoes, but then everything changes. Here’s the secret to its success: You take this perfect sauce and roast it in the oven for an hour and a half [at 375 ° F]. Sauce concentrates and tomatoes caramelize and turn into jam, mixing with all other flavors more convincingly than boiling faster … This oven baking technique is a boon for tomato sauces everywhere – not just vodka. Try it at the marinar, puttan, Amatrians, maybe even at Marsella.
You have to fry your sauce for a while, so you have to plan ahead, but you also don’t need to worry about growing it up. This time can be easily used to prepare leftover meals or do other household chores. Better taste and less work; sounds like a victory to me.
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