Solar Pasta Sauce
This sauce is so easy to make that even the biggest Italian mamma’s boys, the ones that still live with their parents at 30 and have never made a bed or done a load of laundry in their lives, can pull it off.
Equipment
- 1 Solar Oven Sun Oven or other box type cooker
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon Olive oil
- 2 Garlic cloves peeled, cut in half lengthwise, sprout removed
- 3 cups Italian canned tomatoes strained, whole, or crushed
- ¼ cup Fresh basil leaves torn into ½" pieces
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Set Sun Oven out to preheat.
- Place oil and garlic in a lightweight pot and place in the solar oven.
- When the garlic starts to turn a pale golden color, after approx. 10 minutes, stir in the tomatoes (with their juice and coarsely chopped if using whole tomatoes) and the salt.
- Cover the pot with a dark tea towel. Cook until the tomatoes have separated from the oil, 20 - 30 minutes.
- Remove from SO. Stir in basil.
- Makes enough sauce for 1 pound of dry pasta. Serve over cooked pasta with freshly grated parmesan cheese
Notes
You can cook this same recipe inside on the stove. It will take maybe 20 minutes on the stove, or 30 minutes in the solar oven.
I suggest Italian brands of canned tomatoes - the kind that contain only one ingredient - tomatoes. No salt, no citric acid, no seasonings. It's hard to find a non-Italian brand that has none of these and even some of the Italian brands are guilty of the unwanted additions. Read the label carefully!