Olive Oil Poached Cherry Tomato Sauce
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Category
Main Course
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Cusine
Italian
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How to make?
Ingredients
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
4 oz shallots
2 heads of garlic
24 oz cherry tomatoes**
2 cups canned
1/8 tsp sugar
8 stems fresh basil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
crushed red pepper flakes
Directions
Combine olive oil and shallots in a pot over low heat and cook 10 - 12 minutes until shallots become translucent and soft. Stir in garlic while coating entirely with oil, cook for 15 minutes until garlic has softened. Add in cherry tomatoes, crushed plum tomatoes and sugar, cook 20 minutes. Stir in fresh basil stems, partially cover pot and allow mixture to cook 1 hour, stirring occasionally, until cherry tomatoes have burst and deflated and the mixture has turned to a rich sauce.
). Season sauce with salt and pepper to taste and stir in red pepper flakes to taste if desired. Toss sauce with pasta of choice and serve topped with chopped fresh basil for garnish if desired.