Friday 25 July 2014

Antipasto Italiano ,Pizza sauce and Pasta Meat Sauce


 Otto Say’s 
Pasta sanza vino e come il cuore sanza amore
Pasta without wine is like a heart without love

Antipasto Italiano
Ingredients
250 ml. olive oil
6 cloves garlic chopped
500 gr chopped Spanish onions
1 stalk of celery chopped
250 gr chopped carrots
700 gr chopped fresh tomatoes
1 kg chopped fresh jalapenos
500 ml tomato juice
100 gr chopped fresh parsley
Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. Heat olive oil and sauté all vegetable less the parsley for about 20 minutes not soft until very crispy.
2. Add tomato juice bring to a boil and add parsley season with salt and pepper and let cool down
3. Best served cold

Pizza sauce

Ingredients
 1 kg ripe plum tomatoes
125 gr olive oil
12 fresh basil leaves
2 cloves garlic, lightly crushed
Salt and freshly ground pepper

Method

1. Heat the oil and the garlic in pot and stir in the tomato before the oil, Garlic begins to crackle.
2. Season with salt and pepper, simmer over a low flame for 10 minutes,
3. Stir in the basil leaves, simmer for five more minutes, and it's done. 
4. Puree through a china cap
5. Ready to serve keep in cooler when cold

Pasta Meat Sauce

750 g lean ground beef
60 g chopped onion
1 kg crushed tomatoes
250 ml tomato juice
7 g dried basil or fresh
10 g garlic powder
7 g dried oregano or fresh

1. In a saucepan over medium heat, cook ground beef with onion until brown. Stir tomatoes paste, tomato juice basil, garlic powder and oregano into beef mixture.
2 .Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer one hour or so.

3. Serve over hot pasta.

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