Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, julie’s homemade italian tomato sauce (a-k-a sunday gravy). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sunday Gravy is a traditional Italian-American recipe that combines a hearty tomato sauce with several types of meat. Various cuts of beef or pork, as well as delicate meatballs, are cooked in the sauce until tender and served along with pasta that's been tossed in the flavorful sauce. Great recipe for Julie's Homemade Italian Tomato Sauce (a-k-a Sunday Gravy).
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook julie’s homemade italian tomato sauce (a-k-a sunday gravy) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Julie’s Homemade Italian Tomato Sauce (a-k-a Sunday Gravy):
- Make ready 28 oz. can of tomato purée (crushed tomatoes would also work)
- Take 6 oz. can of tomato paste
- Get 1 TBS. bacon grease and/or extra virgin olive oil (I save up bacon grease drippings so I always have a reserve in a jar in the refrigerator)
- Get 1/2 sweet onion, finely chopped
- Make ready 8 oz. wine (red or white)
- Take 8 oz. water
- Take 4 basil leaves, chopped
- Get 2 bay leaves, whole
- Get 1 TBS. dried oregano
- Take 2 tsp. Sugar
- Get to taste Garlic salt
- Get to taste Black pepper
- Make ready 1 heel of Parmesan cheese, optional
In a perfect world, you'd gather around the table every Sunday with your whole family and feast on your Nonna's home cooking. There should be odes written to the perfect, simmered-all-day tomato sauce that only tastes right when it comes from your grandmother's kitchen. A simple tomato sauce is just the foundation of your Sunday gravy, so there's no need to overcomplicate it. After all, it's going to pick up a lot of intense flavors as the meat simmers in it.
Steps to make Julie’s Homemade Italian Tomato Sauce (a-k-a Sunday Gravy):
- In a large pot, sauté the chopped onions in the bacon grease (preferable) or the olive oil, or a combination of both, until the onions are soft and begin to turn brown.
- Add the remaining ingredients together into the pot and simmer, covered, all day long (but for at least a couple hours). For added flavor and an amazing taste, add meatballs (see my recipe), sausage, pork ribs and/or a heel of cheese (yes, just toss the entire heel into the pot). The more, the merrier!
- When ready to serve, remove and discard the bay leaves and the heel of cheese.
- Serve over your favorite pasta.
- Tip: Make a double batch and freeze the extra for next week!
- Buon appetito! 🇮🇹
For Jack, an Italian Tomato Sauce is a tomato-based sauce that simmers for a long time on the stove so that the flavors really deepen and develop. (This recipe is a delicious example!) A Sunday Gravy recipe is a tomato sauce cooked along with a variety of meats including meatballs, spare ribs, sausage, and pork chops, so the sauce picks up. *Full recipe instructions are in the Recipe Card. Instructions: First, prep chop your onions and garlic for both the sauce and the meatballs. Using an affordable food processor makes it really quick and easy. Then, start making the sauce by adding the EVOO, onions and garlic in a large stock pot with lid (non-stick is best) on med/high heat for a couple minutes until the onions become translucent. Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over low heat.
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