All-Purpose Tomato Sauce

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1994

These four sauces made from canned tomatoes are easy, cook quickly, and showcase the flavors of the basic ingredients.

SERVES 6 (Makes about 2 cups)

TIME 40 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For some simple tomato sauce recipes based on just three ingredients (tomatoes, olive oil or butter, and salt), we found the following techniques essential: First, we removed the excess seeds, which are bitter and have an unappealing textur...

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