Pasta With Garlic Tomato Sauce, Olives, and Guanciale

Pasta With Garlic Tomato Sauce, Olives, and Guanciale
Olives and guanciale, cured pork cheek, add richness to this simple sauce. Photo by Giulia Scarpaleggia
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Pasta With Garlic Tomato Sauce, Olives, and Guanciale

A traditional garlicky tomato sauce calls for frying minced garlic in olive oil before adding the tomatoes. Instead, I cook everything together, adding the salt at the beginning so it can extract water from the tomatoes and help cook them down. 
This approach has many benefits: for health, by skipping the frying; for flavor, as it gives you a fresher-tasting tomato sauce; and for saving time. Whatever your reason, try it and it might just become your go-to tomato sauce recipe. 
Giulia Scarpaleggia
Giulia Scarpaleggia
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Giulia Scarpaleggia is a Tuscan-born and bred food writer, food photographer, and author of five cookbooks, including “From the Markets of Tuscany.” She is currently working on her sixth cookbook. Find her online at her blog, JulsKitchen.com
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