Smoky Bacon Tomato Sauce

Add this sauce to your weeknight cooking repertoire-with bacon, it's a surefire heat!

Serves 4 to 6
Preparation Time 10 minutes
Cooking Time 20 minutes
Noodles to Match fettuccine, linguine, spaghetti

Ingredients

• 300 grams honeycured bacon strips or bacon chunks, chopped into ½-inch pieces
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup chopped onions
• ½ cup finely chopped carrots
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 1 (800-gram) can crushed tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons dried thyme
• ½ tespoon chili flakes
• salt and pepper to taste

Method

1 Heat a large saucepan and fry bacon until lightly golden. Remove bacon but leave the rendered fat. Set bacon aside.

2 Heat oil in the same pan. Saute onions until translucent. Add carrots and garlic; cook until soft. Add the crushed tomatoes. Bring to a boil then simmer for 10 minutes.

3 Add bacon, thyme, and chili flakes and continue to simmer for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.