Professional chef Lish Steiling helps you unlock the secret to making restaurant-quality tomato sauce at home. Learn the techniques necessary to raise your game with this Italian cuisine staple to professional levels of goodness.
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0:00 Tomato Sauce 101
0:22 What’s Pomodoro Sauce?
0:39 Chapter One – Prep
2:12 Chapter Two – Cooking
5:22 Chapter Three – Saucing The Pasta
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38 Comments
Do you have to bite the spoon?
I love the recipe, but why canned…. whyyyyy!!
I’ll give you one guess as to whom she voted for and is married to.
So enjoyable! Looking to make this very soon! Thanks!
Hone cooks. Make sure you buy P.O.D. there are many tomatoes that look like San Marzano but they are not
Hey look, another f-ing mutant, pronouns it/it's
Print the full recipe please!
She looks like she uses pronouns
You don't need to produce a sink full of tasting spoons if you use two: one to take out some sauce and drop it on a second one which goes in your mouth. That way the first one that can go into the pot repeatedly never touches your lips
Great video. How do you control the acidity in the sauce?
lmao
Great video, thank you 😊
It's not so bad, but
None in Italia Cooks the saune with parmigiano, in this way you killer the flwor
Or garlic Or onion and much more less garlic, is a tomato saune not agarlicsauce
Chef Lish you are so cool! Love the video. Thanks so much. 🎉😊
Ok we know now, you’re a 3rd wave feminist. What gave it away? 🙄
This was SO easy to follow and it was amazing. THANK you for such an easy to follow recipe that tastes amazing
Angry Italian noises
Why not making tomato sauce with only fresh tomatoes?
Hello!!! I made your SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!! Its so delicious! I can't get enough of it. Just so flavorful and melo tasting. I'm hooked!!
Ehm… I don't think garlic has "oils"…. …… ……..
Is it me or did she not season it? Like at all. Salt is not seasoning enough for me lol where are the herbs
Just the fact that she is using onions to make the sauce is an evidence of how she does not know nothing about Italian cousine
I have never seen any Italian discarding ingredients ever. It was painful to see sorry.
Did she really just say the red onion is sweeter…
Seriously.. this is all wrong 😮😅
okay, it's later and I am thanking you! great sauce. thanks for the how-to!
The best tomato sauce is the one my family makes thanks
pomodoro Literally means Golden Apple. FFS
My mouth is watering, look what u do to me with that sauce!
Caned tomatoes? I thought they were going to be natural, I feel cheated 😂
Dude, where are the tomatoes? The canned stuff was basically a sauce already.
This video made me realize every Balkan mom and every babushka is a chef
Made it with meatballs, perfect combo, my new go to recipe for tomato sauce.
she's adorable!
No sugar, no pepper?
I was expecting true Pomodoro, then you opened a can of tomatoes
Great! But it's not wrong to add a little bit of red wine to it. 😉
It looks delicious but the thing about chopping the vegetables and it becoming a marinara isn't a thing in Italy. Something cooked "alla marinara" for us is anything seasoned with tomato and oregano and marinara has nothing to do with texture.
Usual Italian salsa di pomodoro is made with tomatoes, onion, salt, olive oil and basil/garlic according to taste. Whether you mince the onion or not, it's still salsa di pomodoro.
Also, it's not "pasta pomodoro" but "pasta AL pomodoro". 😊