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Tomato Sauce - Spaghetti with Fresh Basil & Parmesan

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  • Difficulty: easy
  • Video Length: 08:51
  • Course: Pasta WTF?

Use fresh ingredients to make a great pasta sauce. A heavy-bottomed pan is ideal for heating grapeseed or canola oil before adding onions. Canned or fresh tomatoes may be used, and the onions should be cooked to translucency, not browned. Add dry herbs while cooking, but if using fresh herbs, add them at the very end. Simmer, serve and plate the perfect pasta.

Nikki Cascone (Season 4)

Nikki operates 24 Prince Restaurant in New York City as the chef and co-owner. Trained for many years in back of house and in front of house operations with great chefs like Jean-Georges, Shaun Doty and Anne Quatrano, Nikki believes a great chef must understand how to run a business as well as possess outstanding cooking skills. She is also a certified sommelier with extensive wine knowledge. Nikki loves not being restricted to any one particular cuisine and experiments with flavors and ingredients from all over the world. She considers growing up in New York to be the best culinary education one can obtain and says her family and friends constantly tease her about how passionate she is about food. Her future plans are to expand her restaurant group with several new concepts.