40 plum sauce recipes

Slow-simmered marinara sauce with roasted garlic, anchovies, Italian plum tomatoes, and a strip of lemon peel for depth. Rich, savory, and worth the wait.

Vermicelli tossed in a chunky ground beef and plum tomato sauce with fresh basil, finished with crumbled feta cheese. A Greek-Italian mashup that's on the table in 40 minutes.

Slow-simmered Italian tomato sauce with 4 pounds of fresh plum tomatoes, garlic, basil, oregano, and a full tablespoon of black pepper. Three hours on the stove.

Old-school Italian-American spaghetti sauce simmered for hours with whole plum tomatoes, garlic, oregano, and bay leaf. Drop your meatballs in during the last hour and let Sunday dinner take care of itself.

Italian tuna sauce with anchovies, garlic, plum tomatoes, and fresh mint over bow tie pasta. A rustic Southern Italian pantry pasta ready in under an hour.

Summer fruit compote with poached plums, boysenberries, raspberries, citrus, and grapes in a maple syrup and wine sauce finished with fresh mint. An elegant warm fruit dessert.

Homemade Chinese duck sauce from fresh plums and apricots simmered with ginger, mustard seed, cinnamon, and apple cider vinegar. A sweet-tangy condiment that needs two weeks to mature in the jar.

Rotini pasta with a chunky eggplant and three-pepper sauce simmered in white wine with garlic, basil, and plum tomatoes. Oil-free vegetarian pasta dinner built on Mediterranean vegetables.