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Raw Tomato Sauce

4.7

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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Erika Joyce

Use the juiciest, sweetest summer tomatoes you can find for this light, fresh sauce, and toss it with well-drained hot spaghetti and lots of freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. Or use it to spoon onto Pizza Dough; over poached, fried, or scrambled eggs; or on grilled fish, chicken, or zucchini—then add a flourish of olive oil and fresh herbs.

Ingredients

1 1/2–2 lbs. ripe tomatoes, halved
1–2 garlic cloves, finely grated
1/2 cup passata di pomodoro, or strained tomatoes
4–6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation

  1. Grate the fleshy sides of the tomatoes on the large holes of a box grater into a big bowl. Discard the skins. Add the garlic, passata, oil, and crushed red pepper flakes, and season to taste with salt and pepper.

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Excerpted from CANAL HOUSE Cook Something: Recipes to Rely On Copyright © 2019 by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton. Used with permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York. All rights reserved Buy the full book from Amazon.

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