My New Favourite Jarred Pasta Sauce Tastes Simply Just like the Stuff I Ate in Southern Italy

My favourite meal is tremendous easy: pasta with tomato sauce. When there are solely two components in a meal, they each should be actually, actually good. I make fresh pasta daily for work, so the noodle half is sorted. The sauce, nonetheless, was tougher to actualize: My gold commonplace for tomato sauce is the contemporary passata di pomodoro that I bought to style straight out of the meals mills in Southern Italy on the top of summertime. I’ve spent a ton of time, vitality, and cash looking for the best possible jarred approximation of that first chew. And I’m completely satisfied to say that I lastly discovered it — at my native farm stand. Luckily it’s additionally accessible on-line!

A number of years again, I spent a month with totally different farming households in Puglia studying about their tomato processing traditions. It was an unimaginable expertise each culinarily and culturally, and I nonetheless can’t shake how completely scrumptious the passata was at every residence I visited. It was fully totally different from most of the American tomato sauces I’d discovered on grocery cabinets again residence. The solely components in passata are contemporary, native tomatoes, a bit salt, and generally some contemporary basil. (I add good olive oil when heating it up with pasta). Those three easy elements mixed to turn out to be essentially the most scrumptious factor in my taste reminiscence financial institution.

I’ve shopped my approach by way of fancy cheese outlets, Italian import catalogs, and the web looking for one thing like Mama DeSantis’s passata (Mama DeSantis was one of many gracious hosts that took me in throughout my time in Puglia). I hadn’t had a lot luck till final summer season once I stumbled upon one thing at a local farmstand right here on Martha’s Vineyard. After tasting it as soon as, I tracked it down on-line to purchase in bulk for my residence kitchen.

Perché Ci Credo tomato sauce has turn out to be my new favourite pantry product. There are a number of totally different flavors accessible (like basil, peperoncino, olives and capers, ricotta, and sun-dried tomato) and it is available in delightfully enticing 11.6-ounce glass bottles. I gifted a bottle of Perché Ci Credo with my handmade pasta to pals this vacation season and it was an enormous hit! I’m not saying that is nearly as good because the contemporary stuff from Southern Italy — nothing canned or jarred ever will probably be — however, gosh, it’s scrumptious. And handy. And, I’ll proceed to inventory it in my residence kitchen so long as I can get my fingers on it.

Buy: Perché Ci Credo No. 3 Chili Pepper Homemade Tomato Sauce, $9.50 for 11.6 ounces at Zia Pia

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