Tomato Sauce

Name: Tomato Sauce
Prep time: 6 min
Cook time: 43 min
Total time: 49 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 medium yellow onion, peeled and diced small; 6 cloves garlic, peeled and minced; 6 Tbsp basil, minced; 2 Tbsp oregano, minced; One 28-ounce can diced tomatoes, pureed; Salt to taste

Onion, garlic, basil, oregano, and a can of diced tomatoes simmered into a basic tomato sauce. The base recipe. Turn it into marinara, pizza sauce, or pasta sauce.

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Prep: 6 min Cook: 43 min Servings: 4

Ingredients

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1 medium yellow onion , peeled and diced small
6 cloves garlic , peeled and minced
6 Tbsp basil , minced
2 Tbsp oregano , minced
One 28-ounce can diced tomatoes , pureed
Salt to taste

Method

Place chopped onion in a large saucepan. Sauté over medium 10 minutes, adding water 1 to 2 tablespoons at a time as needed.
Add minced garlic, basil, and oregano. Cook 3 minutes more.
Puree the canned tomatoes if you want a smooth sauce; leave diced for chunky.
Add tomatoes and salt. Cover and cook over medium-low heat 20 to 30 minutes.
Taste and adjust seasonings. Use immediately or refrigerate up to a week.

Nutrition per serving (estimated)

26 cal
1.1g protein
0.2g fat
5.9g carbs
1.8g fiber
1.3g sugar
2mg sodium

About the ingredients

medium yellow onion Allium cepa: Bulb vegetable, eaten raw or cooked. Whole minimally-processed plant food; 'organic' refers to cultivation only. WFPB-canonical.
garlic Allium sativum: Garlic itself is canonical, but extract denotes a concentrated/isolated derivative outside the whole-food canon. Marketed as natural/healthy supplement, hence mistaken-as-WFPB flag.
basil Ocimum basilicum: An aromatic culinary herb in the mint family, used fresh or dried for its leaves. Native to tropical Asia and Africa, central to Italian, Thai, and South Asian cooking. A whole-plant leaf, minimally processed. Fully canonical for WFPB.
oregano Origanum vulgare: Mediterranean oregano = Origanum vulgare; Mexican oregano = Lippia graveolens (Verbenaceae). Name covers multiple species but all are whole-leaf herbs, so verdict unaffected.
One 28-ounce can diced tomatoes Solanum lycopersicum: Tomatoes mechanically cut into cubes, typically canned in tomato juice. A whole-food fruit product with minimal processing; matrix largely intact. Canonical to WFPB when packed without added oil/sugar.
Salt NaCl: Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.