Name: False Sauce (Sugo Finto)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 1 glass dry white wine; 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 generous pinch marjoram; extra-virgin olive oil; 100 g/3½ oz streaky bacon, diced; 1 kg/2¼ lb tomatoes, they must be very ripe, peeled, seeded and roughly chopped; 1 stalk of celery, finely diced; 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; ½ onion, finely diced; 1 carrot, finely diced

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Leaves from The Walnut Tree

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

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Ingredients

1 kg/2¼ lb tomatoes, they must be very ripe, peeled, seeded and roughly chopped
100 g/

Method

In 2 tablespoons of olive oil, fry the bacon with the celery, carrot, onion and garlic and fry until the onion is golden. Add the wine and reduce it briskly over a high flame by two-thirds. Lower the heat, add the tomatoes, and the parsley, marjoram, salt and pepper. Leave the sauce to cook gently f