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Fifteen-Minute Fresh Tomato Sauce

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Fifteen-Minute Fresh Tomato Sauce

This fresh, versatile sauce brings out the rich flavor tomatoes have only at summer’s end. Use it with your favorite pasta, adding a dollop of fresh ricotta, if you like. Elizabeth Merritt of Titcomb’s Books in East Sandwich makes several batches at a time and freezes the sauce in plastic freezer bags. “I then have fresh tomato sauce during the winter months,” she says.
Servings 4 Cup(s)

Ingredients
  

  • 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 small hot pepper or a few shakes red pepper flakes (optional)
  • 12 large ripe tomatoes, blanched, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
  • 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh marjoram
  • 3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
  • ½ teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
  • Several sliced basil leaves
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat; add garlic and pepper (if using). Cook for 3 minutes until the garlic starts to turn light brown. Add all remaining ingredients; stir and bring to a boil; turn down the heat and simmer the sauce for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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