Portuguese Sauce
By: Anonymous
Published: Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 4:46am

Ingredients




2 tablespoons Olive oil
cup Chopped onions
1 tablespoon Minced garlic
3 Italian plum tomatoes finely chopped
cup Pitted and halved black olives
(such as Provencal, Greek or Italian)
cup Halved pimiento-stuffed green olives
2 teaspoons Finely-minced anchovy fillets
(or 2 tsps anchovy paste)
1 tablespoon Chopped parsley
1 tablespoon Chopped basil
1 teaspoon Chopped oregano
1 teaspoon Salt
Freshly-ground black pepper
1 stk Chilled unsalted butter cut in 8 pieces

Preparation

1 Heat oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add onions and saute 1 minute. Stir in garlic, tomatoes, black and green olives, anchovies, parsley, basil and oregano; season with salt and 10 turns of pepper. Bring to a boil and simmer, stirring occasionally, about 3 minutes. 2 Reduce heat to medium and add butter pieces, stirring. When butter is half melted, remove skillet from heat and continue stirring until thoroughly incorporated. 3 This recipe yields 1 1/3 cups of sauce.