Recipe - Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients for 4 people:
800 g strained tomatoes
2 small onions
2-3 garlic cloves
1 bay leaf
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp chopped parsley
olive oil
salt, pepper
fresh parmesan cheese
500 g spaghetti

Preparation:

spaghetti with tomato sauce

Peel and finely dice onions and garlic cloves. Heat some olive oil in a pot and cook the garlic and the onions until glassy.

Add the tomatoes and the bay leaf to the pot and bring everything to a boil. Cut up whole tomatoes into largish pieces with a spoon.

Reduce the cooking temperature as soon as the tomato sauce comes to a boil and reduce the sauce to the desired consistency for about 30-60 minutes. Be sure to stir the sauce regularly so that it doesn`t burn.

Remove the bay leaf, add the parsley and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Cook the pasta al dente in generously salted water. Of course, spaghetti is the only pasta to use for the classic ‘Spaghetti Napoli’ or spaghetti with tomato sauce as it is called in English!

Serve the spaghetti on four plates and ladle on the sauce. Grate some fresh parmesan over the sauce to finish.

Buon appetito!

Note: This basic Italian tomato sauce can be refined at will. For example, add herbs such as oregano, thyme, or rosemary, a bit of diced bacon, or lend a bit of spice to the sauce with chili . . .

Simply try things out and show your creativity!

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