the easiest tomato sauce for pasta

Home from a week away and tired after a long journey. I was so close to ordering pizza but then I realised what I really wanted was a bowl of pasta with a good tomato sauce and too much Parmesan. So I turned to the easiest tomato sauce for pasta there is.

This classic recipe from Marcella Hazan is stupidly easy but deserves every bit of adulation from all the food writers who sing its praises. I don’t know why I hadn’t tried it earlier – I think it just sounded a bit too plain. My mistake.

to make the easiest tomato sauce for pasta

Just put 2 cans of unsalted, unseasoned tomatoes (about 800g or 24oz in total) in a medium sized saucepan with 5 tablespoons butter (about 60g), a red or yellow onion that you’ve peeled and cut in half and a big pinch of salt.