Spicy Quick Tomato Sauce
By: Chris Manteria
Published: Monday, July 2, 2012 - 3:28pm

Ingredients




1 can crushed tomatoes - 28 oz's
2 cloves garlic - grated or crushed
2 tsp olive oil
2 tsp crushed red pepper - more or less to taste
1 tsp oregano
salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

1 Heat the olive oil in a high sided pot over medium-high heat. 2 Add the garlic and sautee. Do not quite brown just get fragrant and softened up a bit approximately 1-2 minutes. 3 Add in the red pepper flakes. Heat until just fragrant - approximately 30 seconds. 4 Pour in the tomato. Stir to mix. 5 Season with oregano, salt and pepper to taste. Make sure the sauce is heated through and get ready to serve. 6 It is that easy people. There is no reason not to have fresh sauce on any given day. Quick and easy this sauce is great for making pizza, tossing with shrimp or adding to plain pasta. Let your mind run wild. 7 Recipe originally published with photo tutorial at http://sourdoughusa.com/?p=1235

About

Having grown up in an Italian household there was only 1 type of sauce. Grandma's recipe which Dad made every month or two. He took what seemed like a whole Sunday every couple of months to put together the sauce. There was a process that involved sausage bought at the sausage store, meatballs hand rolled, lots of time, effort and love. I now know there are many types of sauce. This is just one that takes 5 minutes to make and comes out spicy and full of flavor.