Tomato Sauce with Porcini Mushrooms

Name: Tomato Sauce with Porcini Mushrooms
Yield: Enough for 1 pound of pasta
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, olive oil; 1 , medium onion, minced; 1 rib, celery, minced; 1 , small carrot peeled and minced; 1 ounce, dried porcini mushrooms, rehydrated, strained, and chopped coarse; soaking liquid reserved; 1 teaspoon, table salt; , (28 ounce) can whole tomatoes (preferably plum), packed in juice, drained, seeded, and chopped; 3 tablespoons, minced fresh parsley leaves

Pasta
Vegetables
Vegetarian
Sauces

Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 1997

These robust, earthy sauces banish any notions of bland, watery mushrooms.

SERVES Enough for 1 pound of pasta

TIME 45 minutes

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