Recipes that Rocked the Internet

The web's most popular recipes, including kale chips, engagement chicken, whole wheat chocolate chip cookies, no-knead bread, butter tomato sauce, and more.

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Butter Tomato Sauce

This irresistible four-ingredient recipe that requires about as much effort opening a can of Spaghetti-Os — but delivers much more impressive results. What happens beneath the lid of this medium-sized stock pot is nothing short of alchemy: a generous amount of butter smoothes the acidic edges of the tomato, resulting in a delicate, opulent sauce that calls for a simple vehicle of pasta and absolutely nothing else. The Amateur Gourmet sang this recipe's praises in the early days of food blogging — he threw in a few cloves of garlic for extra flavor. Steamy Kitchen suggests using salted butter and well-salted water for boiling pasta; Smitten Kitchen liked it best without any parmesan added. Food 52's Genius Recipes column called it "the most famous tomato sauce on the internet" and offers a version made with milled fresh tomatoes.

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Photos, top to bottom: Smitten Kitchen, William Brinson for Food52

Comments (7)

by PILLE on 2011-10-05

I blogged about them recently as well: http://nami-nami.blogspot.com/2011/06/baking-with-whole-grain-flours.html - you can safely reduce the amount of sugar, and still end up with really lovely choc chip cookies :)

by pemachemer on 2011-10-05

This is Macella Hazen's Lemon Chicken.

by lenabrook@yahoo.com on 2011-10-05

I loved the idea of whole wheat chocolate chip cookies, but didn't love the texture of Kim Boyce's version. I created a chewier, more delicate version, which can be found here:

http://happiermeal.com/2011/09/06/whole-wheat-chocolate-chip-cookie-update/

by KALYNSKITCHEN on 2011-10-05

Yes, the Kale Chips have had quite a ride. Thanks for featuring my version.

by GASTROMAN on 2011-10-12

You are lacking the Pulled Pork: http://gastromand.dk/opskrift-pulled-pork-temperatur-grill/ :)

by RHONDAYES on 2011-10-17

Thief! CAll the police! lol. I've been making this sauce since my children were school age. This was my go to sauce for one of my many 30 minute dinner meals, especially when I was running late at work. 25+ years and counting.

by RHONDAYES on 2011-10-17

Oh, let me add, on days when I wanted to "fancy" it up, I would add whole milk to make it creamy, like I do to my tomato soup when being served with grilled cheese sandwiches.