Making Tomato Sauce for Pasta

Preparing the tomato sauce is an important step in most homemade pasta recipes. Of course a variety of ready-made pasta sauces are easily(and cheap too) available. But making your own pasta sauce makes it more special. And tastier too!

To make tomato sauce for pasta recipes you will need: tomatoes, basil, cloves, garlic, and some good red wine that can be used for cooking.

Method:

Boil 500 grams of tomatoes till the skins break. Turn off the flame and remove skin from tomatoes. The skin comes of easily when the tomatoes are still hot. Using a fork to hold the tomato in place and a knife to strip off the skin keeps me from burning my fingers on hot tomatoes.

Remove seeds from tomatoes and chop the tomatoes. What I do is cut the tomatoes in half, scoop out the inner pulp with seeds and pass it all through a strainer. This way, I can collect the tasty inner juice of the tomato without the seeds.

Heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a pan( you can use any vegetable oil, it doesn't have to be olive oil but generally olive oil is preferred) and add to it the 5 cloves and  1 tablespoon of  minced garlic. Fry for a minute or two.

Next add the chopped tomatoes to the pan. Pour 1 cup of warm water  into the pan and salt(as per taste).When the sauce begins to boil add a few leaves of fresh basil and half a teaspoon of dried oregano. 

Finally add half cup of red wine to the sauce.Lower flame and let the sauce simmer for 20 minutes or longer, if you want it thicker!