here's one straight from palermo. This is a good marinara, NO MEAT. MRS Paradelas would really cut you the evil eye if you were so foolish as to inquire about the lack of meat in the sauce.
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- 1 LB fresh Roma tomatoes
1 large yellow onion coarse chopped
1/2 cup chopped parsley
crushed garlic to taste
1 TBS Italian spices +1 TSP oregano
¼ cup olive oil
1 cup breadcrumbs
2 cup water
salt/pepper to taste
Peel tomatoes and coarse chop
Heat oil in heavy saucepan to almost smoking add onions, peppers, and celery, parsley, and half of the spices, cook for about 5 minutes until the onions become translucent add tomatoes and garlic, cook for 5 minutes, stir often, add water simmer until tomatoes break up add rest of spices and taste for salt add if needed, add pepper.
At this point you should have a sauce that is kind of in between, you can do a couple of things, continue simmering until it is as thick as you like, use as is or add the bread crumbs a bit at a time until thickened as MRS Paralades did because she had to stretch the sauce to feed everyone. If you add the breadcrumbs you will have to cook it for about 5 minutes to cook out the bread taste.