Italian Tomato Pasta Sauce

Intro

Don't buy bottled pasta sauce ever again. Just don't do it. It takes about 15 minutes to make this simply gorgeous sauce - and it works just fine with plain tinned tomatoes. Don't be tempted to buy flavoured tomatoes or to dress this up with too many extra flavours or ingredients - its big enough on its own. 

Recipe

• 1 kg ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped or 3 x 425g cans chopped Roma tomatoes,
• 4 - 6 plump cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
• freshly ground black pepper
• salt
• quarter cup of olive oil
• fresh basil leaves

Heat the garlic in the oil at a low sizzle until its just starting to colour. Add the tomatoes, salt and pepper then simmer for 15 - 30 minutes until you have a nice thickish sauce consistency. Tear some basil leaves in at the end. I use this for Cannelloni which the kids love and for one of my all time favourites, Parmigiana di Melanzane.