good morning youtube all right today i'm going to show you one of my favorite tricks for
getting ahead of a full week's cooking i'm going to make a bright flavorful beautiful
puddiness sauce oh this stuff is phenomenal make it with any kind of pasta or do what
i'm gonna do and make it with meatballs or just you know sit around drink it out of a
bowl it is that good all right let's cook y'all we got a family to feed
all right here we go we're gonna make some finesse sauce love this stuff it is absolutely loaded with
flavor and i haven't made it in a while and i don't know why um you know how sometimes you just
don't do something for a while for no particular reason well that's all i got here okay so a couple
stocks of celery and if you've got like the leafy bits use that there's a lot of flavor in there
and then one onion if you don't have a food processor just mince this up fine um i like
using the food processor this is a personal preference and then a lot of garlic um this is
about half of a head of garlic that's a lot it's not very big garlic okay so what we're going to do
is get our pan over here preheated we're going to whiz this up all together
normally i also include a small carrot i'm out of carrots
i'm going to let this do its thing i'll be back in a second
onions don't bother me much when i'm chopping onions but boy this one's fierce that's funny
they don't usually get me okay so i just whizzed all this up together
make a nice little paste and now my food processor is stuck there we go all right so i've got a
couple tablespoons of olive oil over here on the stove and i'm gonna add our onion and garlic and
celery paste normally like i said i'll use a carrot too it's for a little bit of sweetness
to counter the acid in the tomatoes that we're going to use um it just happened i don't know
if you feel like you need it and i've got some really high quality canned
tomatoes i bought at a specialty shop so i probably am not going to need to
do it but if you taste your sauce and it's got a little bit of a bite
add a couple teaspoons of sugar okay so this is all we're doing
we're gonna saute that for a few minutes
and i'll be back all right so we have sauteed about five minutes not too long
all right so six cans of tomatoes now i've got a combination here trying not to splash
most of these yum are a high quality diced tomato
it's actually sold as diced and crushed in the same can and i have four cans of that and
i've got two cans of tomato sauce however you can use whatever you want now i'm wearing it
you can use all crushed i happen to like that um
kids aren't as crazy about it so you know more saucy less uh texture
all right so now we're going to start on the part that makes it a pudanesca
and a puddusca just has tons and tons of flavor all right so bay leaf
and even though we have garlic and onion in there already i've got two teaspoons each of
garlic and onion powders i have a fat teaspoon maybe teaspoon and a half of red pepper flake
a tablespoon of oregano
two teaspoons of black pepper seems like it never stops that was time this is the oregano
all right
now when i show you this next thing don't freak out i've been doing this for years and it is
almost inevitable if somebody knows i've done this oh i hate it but if they don't know i've done it
perfectly happy and they think that this is delicious
anchovy paste okay about a tablespoon you will not taste anchovy in the final product
you will taste just something beautiful all right tablespoon of tomato paste
about two teaspoons of salt
that's kosher salt if you used um iodized salt use
less you want to be careful with the salt because we're adding
a good two tablespoons of capers and those can be salty i have more capers right here because
we love capers so much it's ridiculous i actually double capers when i'm doing this but the first
time you make this add the two tablespoons and taste if you love capers like we do
double it all right all this happens all this all this does bring that up to a simmer
we're gonna let it simmer for about half an hour
all right so we've had about half an hour
and this is something look how beautiful that is
the fragrance is stunning it's so good all right this is all there is to this y'all now
at this point here's where you want to give it a taste and if you think you're a little too acidic
this is where you'd give it just a teaspoon or two of sugar
i don't think it needs it so i'm not gonna do that to mine it is so good all right now you
have your choice of all kinds of stuff you can take this exact same sauce and serve it
over any pasta you want or what i'm gonna do is make meatballs and it's gonna be the star
of a beautiful cheesy stuffed meatball how great is that all right if you want to do
the meatballs come to the next video otherwise make a big batch of pasta and have at it you