Sauce "Neapolitan": recipes

"Neapolitano" - a true Mediterranean sauce, light and fragrant. It contains all the classic elements of Italian cuisine - tomatoes, basil, olive oil. Neapolitano sauce matches perfectly with Italian pasta and is perfect for making pizza. It will be a good addition to fried or stewed eggplant and chicken dishes.

Classic recipe for Neapolitano sauce

To prepare the basic version, you need to take the following products:

• 500 g of tomatoes;
• two large cloves of garlic;
• one onion;
• 100 ml of olive oil;
• two tablespoons of chopped basil leaves;
• half a teaspoon of sugar;
• ground black pepper;
• salt.

Order of preparation:

1. Heat olive oil in a pan.
2. Finely chop the onion, put into hot oil and sauté until tender.
3. Remove the skin from a tomato, scalding before this boiling water, and finely chop.
4. Put tomatoes onion, add salt, sugar and ground pepper. Simmer over moderate heat for half an hour. Moisture should completely evaporate during this time.
5. Add chopped basil, remove the pan from the stove, leave the mixture to infuse for seven minutes, then mix carefully.

The sauce is ready to eat. The resulting amount is enough for five servings of pasta.

Simple recipe

Neapolitano sauce can be prepared from canned tomatoes in its own juice, onions, olive oil and vegetable broth. In addition, spices will be required - ground black pepper and salt.

Order of preparation:

1. Chop onions, fry in olive oil in a pan over medium heat.
2. Grind canned tomatoes and put in onions, add the broth, bring to a boil.
3. Then reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour. After the sauce is ready, pepper and salt.

Use it to make pizza, serve with fried eggplant, pasta and other dishes. If desired, Provencal herbs can be included in the dish.

For pizza

Neapolitano pizza sauce is prepared from the same canned tomatoes as in the previous recipe. You just need to buy a can of tomatoes in your own juice and take salt to taste. This sauce is called raw, because it is prepared in the process of baking pizza.

Order of preparation:

1. Carefully remove the tomatoes from the jar, break them off with your hands, try to remove all the seeds.
2. Put the tomatoes in a bowl, salt and knead with your hands until a homogeneous gruel is obtained. It is undesirable to use a blender, since a true Neapolitan sauce should not be so uniform.
3. If after kneading the mass turns out to be too thick, add juice from the can to it.

Neapolitano sauce for pizza is ready. Now you can take on the preparation of the most popular Italian dish.

With tomato paste

The following ingredients will be required for this recipe:

• eight tomatoes;
• 30 ml olive oil;
• two onions;
• 200 g of tomato paste;
• five cloves of garlic;
• oregano and basil;
• Bay leaf;
• salt;
• ground black pepper.

Order of preparation:

1. Peel the tomato, scalding them with boiling water, and finely chop.
2. Grind onions and garlic.
3. Fry onions and garlic in olive oil, add tomatoes, tomato paste, oregano and basil, pepper and salt. Bring the sauce to a boil, reduce heat and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes.
4. Remove the bay leaf from the sauce, beat with a blender and put in a saucepan.

Neapolitano sauce can be served with pasta and chicken dishes.

Conclusion

Simple, but very tasty and fragrant Neapolitan sauce is a real find for culinary specialists. With a small set of ingredients and pretty quickly you can get a spicy dressing for vegetables, pasta, chicken. It is always better to make pizza with natural homemade sauce than with store ketchups.