Tomato Sauce with lots of Basil, Garlic and Olive Oil

Many Italian dishes are characterized by the simplicity of their ingredients and perhaps few ingredients exemplify Italian better than tomato, basil, garlic, olive oil and Parmigiano-Reggiano. 

Mom made a surprisingly good, quick, and simple tomato sauce with lots of olive oil, garlic, and fresh basil. My recipe uses her same ingredients but replaces raw garlic with my sweet pot roasted. Garlic is slowly simmered in olive oil removing garlic’s sharp and potentially bitter taste to sweet and pleasant while olive oil becomes garlic infused (please see following tab).

Contrary to the belief tomatoes need to simmered for hours in red sauces, some rely on minimally processed tomatoes to retain tomatoes fresher taste.