How To Make Italian Sugo Recipe

Name: Italian Sugo Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Olive oil; 1 Small onion (minced); 4 Cloves garlic; ½ tsp Salt; Red pepper flakes; ½ cup red wine(optional); ½ cup Fresh basil leaves; 1 Bay leaf; 2 Can crushed San Marzano / Pasatta tomatoes

Prajwal Furtado

January 9, 2023

Sauce

10 MINUTES

super easy

SERVES 10

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Italian Sugo Recipe

Italian Sugo Recipe: Sugo means ‘sauce’ in Italian. Sugo is a traditional tomato sauce made from ripe tomatoes.

Type: Sauce

Cuisine: Italian

Keywords: Italian Sugo Recipe, Italian Tomato Sauce

Recipe Yield: 10

Calories: 152

Preparation Time: PT10M

Cooking Time: PT1H30M

Total Time: PT1H40M

Recipe Ingredients:

2 tbsp Olive oil
1 Small onion (minced)
4 Cloves garlic
½ tsp Salt
Red pepper flakes
½ cup red wine(optional)
½ cup Fresh basil leaves
1 Bay leaf
2 Can crushed San Marzano / Pasatta tomatoes

Recipe Instructions:

Italian Sugo Recipe Steps:

To make Italian Sugo, first you have to take a saucepan or large pot and heat the olive oil over medium heat. Then Add the onion, cook until onions turn translucent and soft. Then Smash the garlic cloves add to the saucepan, cook until they are light brown in color and fragrant for about 5 minutes.
Remove the garlic from the above mixture. Add salt, red pepper flakes, crushed tomatoes, bay leaf and wine (if using). Cover the sauce and bring it to a simmer. Simmer for an hour. Sthit occasionally.
After 1 hour, uncover the pan and simmer uncovered for 15-20 minutes again until the sauce thickens. Add basil and stir well. Remove bay leaf. Then Adjust the taste; Add seasoning and salt if required. The sauce is now ready to use.

Editor's Rating:
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Italian Sugo Recipe: Sugo means ‘sauce’ in Italian. Sugo is a traditional tomato sauce made from ripe tomatoes cooked with olive oil, onions, pepper flakes, and garlic, and seasoned with spices and herbs and is base to many classic Italian dishes, like all’amatriciana, penne arrabiata and many more. Most Italians use this recipe to make their sauce as it can be prepared with less ingredients to get a rich Italian flavorful taste.

Benefits of Italian Sugo Recipe

Tomatoes are a rich source of vitamins A, C and K.
With additional herbs, this is good for heart.
Tomatoes contain lot of water, which helps in digestion.
It has a good number of calories.
Italian Sugo is good for Digestive Health as it contains a lot of water, fiber, as much as 1.5 grams. It also has a good amount of carbohydrate.
Italian Sugo is good for skins, it improves immunity level.
Italian Sugo prevents blood clotting and bone metabolism.
Italian Sugo is also good for your intestine health.

How to Make Italian Sugo Recipe

Sugo is an authentic tomato sauce recipe in the Italian cuisine that comes from slow simmering of the tomatoes, herbs and spices on the stove and uses few ingredients to create a rich, flavorful taste. Sugo serves as a base to many of the Italian dishes. Here let us have a look at the ingredients and method of doing Italian Sugo.

You can use Italian Sugo to your vegetables or meat products. You can also use this in preparing fried rice, Noodles, Pasta and in other Chinese items. Italian Sugo is also a healthy food, and it has many health benefits. You can prepare this at your home on any occasions. Italian Sugo is mainly popular in Italy and also in other Europe countries.

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Ingredients

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	2tbsp Olive oil
	1 Small onion (minced)
	4 Cloves garlic
	½tsp Salt
	Red pepper flakes
	½ cup red wine(optional)
	½ cup Fresh basil leaves
	1 Bay leaf
	2 Can crushed San Marzano / Pasatta tomatoes

Nutritional Information

152 Calories

7g Fat

21g Carbs

4g Protein

5g Dietary Fiber

91mg Calcium

24mg Vitamin C

Directions

Heating Process For Italian Sugo Recipe

To make Italian Sugo, first you have to take a saucepan or large pot and heat the olive oil over medium heat. Then Add the onion, cook until onions turn translucent and soft.