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Neapolitan Sauce

Neapolitan sauce refers to a tomato-based sauce derived from those in Italian cuisine. This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters.

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Ingredients
Everything you'll need to make this recipe
1

1 onion, chopped

2

Butter

3

Ham, cut into pieces

4

1 glass Marsala wine

5

1 glass blond of veal

6

1 sprig thyme

7

1 bay leaf

8

4 peppercorns

9

1 clove

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1 tbsp minced mushrooms

11

2 cups (480 ml) Espagnole sauce

12

1 cup tomato sauce

13

½ cup game stock or essence

Instructions
Step-by-step guide to making this recipe
1

Fry the chopped onion in a saucepan of butter with the ham.

2

Add the marsala wine and blond of veal.

3

Add the thyme, bay leaf, peppercorns, clove, and mushroom. Cook until reduced by half.

4

In another saucepan heat the Espagnole sauce, tomato sauce, and game stock or essence. Cook until reduced by a third.

5

Add the contents of the first saucepan, boil the sauce a few minutes, and pass it through a sieve.

6

Warm it up in a bain-marie before using.