Do you have an onion, five carrots and garlic? If so, here you go:
- finely chop the onion and three garlic cloves.
- sweat the onion in 2 tbs of olive oil until translucent, about 10 min, then add 1 TBS kosher salt.
- add garlic and cook for two more min.
- add 2 TBS of tomato paste, mix, and then add the tomato puree.
- coarsely chop the tomatoes (do this in the can with kitchen shears) and add to the sauce.
- Peel and cut the carrots into 2" segments and add to the sauce.
- simmer for about 2 hours; remove the carrots before use (they're a great snack) or keep them in. Add additional salt to taste.
- a splash or red wine never hurts.
If you don't have carrots just add some sugar to taste to give the sauce just a tinge of sweetness.
Actually, this isn't a "sub" for tomato sauce...it
is tomato sauce.
...lou