Smothered Onions Sauce – Pomodori e Vino

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Pasta with caramelized onions. A fantastic idea! Totally rich, sensual in the mouth and delicious.
Because I am in Venice, I bought some beautiful flat white onions—cipolle.
I used butter to slowly stew a whole bunch of onions (about 6 cups sliced) for about and hour.

After that I raised the heat the temperature to get them a perfect golden brown, added some wine, black pepper chopped parsley and freshly grated parmigiano reggiano and there it is. A fantastic dish!

I just have to add a personal note. It is really a thrill to feel the connection to Marcella, here in this beautiful city. I can so easily imagine her walking these streets and shopping in the stalls. Thank you again, Marcella, for enriching an already wonderful experience.

Comments

Smothered Onions Sauce — 6 Comments

Deborah on June 4, 2010 at 9:01 am said:

Jan, It is so cool that you are cooking while in Venice! This looks so yummy.
I’m really pleased that so many of our pasta sauce recipes are tomato-less. New experiences for me.
Susie L on June 4, 2010 at 9:45 am said:

I want to eat that now! How great that you are cooking in Venice.
nancyhol on June 4, 2010 at 10:32 am said:

What could be better than preparing your recipe in Venice? It sounds wonderful!
David downie on June 4, 2010 at 8:23 pm said:

I do love this dish.
What a great site.I’m cooking my way through but it will take me years. — David
Deborah responds: Very cool David. I went to your blog. You ARE ambitious to do this all by yourself!
Irene on June 5, 2010 at 10:58 am said:

Looks great!
Marcella Hazan on June 6, 2010 at 4:35 pm said:

Did Sandi and Jan work on this together? And did Jerry make the pasta? I have never found anyone who didn’t adore this dish. One of my first guests, a long time ago, when I began to live in Venice, was a famous glass sculptor. I made the smothered onion dish with homemade pasta that evening and Luciano- that was his name – barely got to finish it that he asked for seconds. What is in this sauce, he asked? Onions, I said. Onions?!?, How can that be, I hate onions. Then he accepted a third serving.
Jan responds:
What a wonderful little story!
I actually made it all by myself. I bought the pasta, dried, at the Billa and it was very good! I tried to but one that looked special. These were in a package with a cardboard bottom so I thought they might be better than the others.

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