Fake Meat Sauce

Name: Fake Meat Sauce (Sugo Finto)
Yield: Makes Enough for 1¼ lb (500 g) Pasta
Cuisine: Roman
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 1 handful parsley, finely chopped; 2 oz (50 g) fat from ham, finely chopped; 1 stick celery, finely chopped; 3 tablespoons tomato purée diluted with 1 glass of meat stock; ½ onion, finely chopped; 1 carrot, finely chopped

Sugo Finto

Preparation info

Makes Enough for
1¼ lb
Pasta

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Italian Regional Cookery

By Valentina Harris

Published 1990

About

A legacy of Ancient Roman cuisine, when only the very rich could afford meat, this recipe uses the fat from ham to give the sauce some richness.

Ingredients

½ onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 stick celery, finely chopped

Europe
Italy
Rome
Sauce
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Fry the chopped vegetables and parsley with the ham fat until the onion is transparent and soft. Add the diluted tomato purée, season and stir. Simmer for about 30 minutes, or until the fat begins to separate from the sauce. Use hot as required.