Name: Slow-cooked tomato Napoletana sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 360 min
Total time: 370 min
Yield: 7 cups
Ingredients: 2 x 800g cans diced tomatoes; 1⁄4 cup tomato paste; 1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1 brown onion, finely chopped; 2 cloves garlic, crushed; 1 cup basil leaves; Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season

Slow-cooked tomato Napoletana sauce

This will impress even the toughest of critics.

7 cups

Prep

10M

Cook

Total

6H 10M

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A quality homemade sauce is the secret to absolutely mouth-watering tomato-based Italian meals.

Ingredients

2 x 800g cans diced tomatoes

1⁄4 cup tomato paste

1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1 brown onion, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 cup basil leaves

Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season

Method

Put tomatoes, tomato paste, oil, onion and garlic in the bowl of a 5L slow cooker. Stir in 1⁄2 of the basil. Place bowl in appliance, cover with lid and cook on low setting for 6 hours.

Remove bowl from appliance and remove lid. Season, stir in remaining basil and serve.

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