75% home-made roast garlic pasta sauce

I love pasta, but I found that the pasta sauces are either too bland(Ragu, Bertolli) for me or good but too pricey. So I decided to make my own...for the most part. I also happen to be a garlic freak, and when I made my own sauce, it was rich and smokey!

Ingredients:

One 26.45oz of strained tomatoes.

1-2tsp of of salt

1 medium onion

1/4 cup of olive oil

1 whole bulb of garlic.

two-three stalk of rosemary

2tbsp of sugar, just enough to mute the acidity. Tomato is one of the most acidic food, and sugar suppresses the sourness. Add just enough to not taste sour, but don't put it enough to make it sweet.

1. Heat your olive oil in a wide sauce pan. Mince your onion into fine cubes. Take 1/3 of the bulb of garlic, peel and smash them with the flat side of a kitchen knife.

2. Infuse your smashed garlic and rosemary at low heat. I love the garlic scent but don' want it to be burnt, so I maintained the heat at the low temperature so that the toasty garlic flavor is infused thoroughly.

3. Preheat your oven at 400C (air fryer works too). Take the rest of your galic, cut the tippy top of the garlic bulb and cover the whole thing in aluminum foil. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Why am I using garlic in two different ways? Roasted, brown garlic has its own different flavor due to caramelization, and it adds another layer of flavor to the sauce.

4. While you are into 20 minute of garlic baking, take out the infused garlic and set aside. Saute your minced onion in olive oil until it's translucent.

5. Un-foil the roasted garlic. It should be soft, brown and have slightly sweet aroma. Use your work to pick out the individual roasted clove. Mush it with either spoon or a flat side of the kitchen knife.

6. Add the infused and toasted garlic into the pan, and now add the strained tomato with sugar and salt. Make sure to not make your sauce too sweet or too salty.

7. Close the lid, lower the heat and simmer for 30-40 minutes so that olive oil and garlic/rosemary flavor is thoroughly spread.

8. Use it however you like! Pasta, pizza, chicken parm, calzone, whatever italian goodies you want.

bon appetit