Roasted Tomato Meat Sauce is made with Roasted Tomatoes, Onions & Garlic that is combined with Ground Beef, Milk & Wine, simmered in water to create a Pasta Meat Sauce, much like a bolognese but not as thick. The union of slow cooked beef and broth with the roasted vegetables creates an astounding Pasta sauce that gets tossed with boiled pasta and pasta water. Whether it's Spaghetti or other long pasta, or short pasta like Penne or Cavatappi. This Pasta sauce will bring some elegance and class to your pasta dish. We're making plenty of it too so that we can portion it out and freeze to have Pasta any time, in as little as 30 minutes.This Tomato sauce recipe makes two sauces: The Roasted Tomato Pasta Sauce with no meat used & the Roasted Tomato Pasta Sauce that is added to the Meat Sauce for a Roasted Tomato Meat Sauce.
Servings: 15 C
Equipment
- 1 Large Roasting Pan
- 1 Digital Scale
- 2 Large Sauce Pot
- 1 Immersion Stick Blender
- Ziploc Bags or Tupperware as needed
Ingredients
- 10 lbs Roma Tomatoes
- 10 Tbl Olive Oil
- 5 tsp Sea Salt
- 2 tsp Black Pepper - or more
- 576 g Onions - or more
- 1 Head Garlic
- 28 g Basil - or more
Meat Sauce
- 2 lbs Ground Beef
- 1/2 C Milk
- 1 C Red Wine
- 5 C Water
Instructions
- Preparation: Preheat the oven to 300F with the rack in middle position. Wash the tomatoes and slice in half lengthwise, weighing out 10 lbs. Add them to the roasting pan with Oil, Onions, Garlic, Salt & Pepper and toss well.
- Roasted Tomatoes: Roast for 3 hours, tossing every hour or so for even roasting and to prevent burning.
- Meat Sauce: At the same time you start roasting the tomatoes, start the meat sauce by browning 2 lbs of ground beef. Then add Milk to mix and cook until the milk is gone. Follow with Red Wine and cook until the wine is gone. Then add in 5 C of Water to bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium low and gently simmer for 4 hours.
- Puréed Tomato Sauce: Empty the roasted tomatoes into a large pot and purée with an immersion blender. The puréed Tomato Sauce can be used just like this without any meat. Just add the Basil and adjust the Seasoning. You may have to simmer for a bit if it's too watery. Otherwise, set it aside to add some to the meat sauce.
- Tomato Meat Sauce: As soon as the Tomatoes are puréed, you should have 1 hour left for the Meat Sauce. Add 12 C of the Tomato purée to the Meat Sauce and mix well. Leave it to simmer for the last hour, or until thickened to your liking. Add the Basil and adjust the Seasoning. Portion out the remaining roasted tomato sauce and freeze. Use the meat sauce for pasta, and any leftover meat sauce can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or portioned and frozen for longer storage.
Notes
If the Roasted Tomato Sauce is too watery, simmer it to reduce and thicken the sauce before portioning and freezing. When adding Roasted Tomato Sauce to the meat sauce, it doesn't matter, since the whole sauce is being reduced anyway.