What is the secret to fantastic speghetti sauce?

Question

What is the secret to fantastic speghetti sauce?

Answer 1

You have to carmelize the tomato paste first, before adding anything else. The carmelized tomato paste will be your sauce base.

Just put the paste in a skillet, and add about 1T olive oil. Cook it until the smell of the paste 'changes' from acidic to sweet (5-10 min.). Then, add your sauce, diced tomatoes, veggies, etc.

Answer 2

Add sugar at the end. Tomatoes are quite acidic. A bay leaf adds a great background taste. I can tell you the entire recipe from the Italian restaurant I worked at (owner grew up cooking in Naples Italy.) but then I'd have to shoot you. Perhaps I've said to much already.... (Hint: We never used tomato paste. Just let the sauce simmer, slowly all day. Stir occasionally. It will reduce. Tomato paste is usually used as a way to get a lot of concentrated tomato flavor for  a 'quick sauce' that doesn't need to "cook down" like traditional tomato sauces.) There is nothing close to a sauce that's been stewing all day.

Answer 3

For me, it was the choice of meat I used.  For my sauce now, which Ive been told my several is outstanding, I use fresh Italian sausage.  I lb sweet, 1 lb spicy.  Take the sausages and place them in your pot with a little olive oil. Poke a few fork holes in them and let them render down for a few min on each side.  You're not looking to cook them all the way through.

Remove the sausages, and sautee your veggies, including the tomato paste in the sausage renderings.  Build your sauce and bring to a simmer.  After its been simmering for about 15 min, cut up the sausages into bite-sized pieces and add them back into the sauce.  simmer for about an hour.  

Answer 4

Add a little sugar.

Answer 5

Actually the fresh ingredients and the time of cooking make a great difference.

Here is my all time favorite.

Lean ground beef

Olive oil

garlic

red wine (good quality)

prepared tomato sauce with herbs and spices

tomato juice

water

salt & pepper

a touch of sugar

In a pot add olive oil and garlic saute for 1 min. not more it Burns very easy,add meat and continue until meat is nicely browned,deglaze with the wine .

Add the rest of the ingredients and let cook in slow to med.heat for 1 hour.

This recipe is very easy and delicious,you can make a nice bach and freeze it it's comforting to know there is always something available.

Also the wine gives it another dimension.