Videos: Sauces
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...
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...
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 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...
