Videos: Sauces

Sauce

How to Make a Simple Tomato Pasta Sauce

In this information-packed segment, we finish the first sauce and Giuliana shows us how to make an even simpler, faster tomato sauce  using whole crushed garlic cloves, large chunks of onion and hand-crushed tomatoes. Pretty soon, the pasta is drained and the sauce is...

Sauce

How to Make a Smooth Pasta Sauce

In this segment, Giuliana walks us through the steps to make a smooth tomato sauce for pasta. First she gets the battuto together—the vegetables or fresh herbs used at the beginning of the sauce to start the layering of flavors. The minced...

Sauce

San Marzano Tomato Sauce

While a good imported Italian tomato is fine for everyday cooking, for a really special homemade tomato sauce, Giuliana likes the San Marzano tomato. Imported from Italy, the San Marzano has truly superior taste, thanks to the volcanic...

Tomatoes

Tomatoes for Pasta Sauce: Which Tomatoes to Use

Italians love their tomatoes! In our video series on Sauce, Giuliana explains that when making homemade pasta sauce, you should definitely use fresh tomatoes in the summertime when you can get them, but the rest of the year, you can make excellent homemade sauce using...