Farmer's sauce with fennel seeds – Secrets of Sicily

Origin
Produced in Italy
Storage
Store in a cool, dry place away from heat and light sources. After opening, store in the fridge, consume within 5 days.
Use
Heat two minutes. Perfect on pasta (Paccheri Segreti di Sicilia).
Ingredients
Tomato sauce, Frantoi Cutrera extra virgin olive oil, onion, salt, sugar, fennel seeds, bay leaves, chilli pepper. Acidifier: citric acid.

Our farmer's sauce with fennel seeds is produced by lightly sautéing onion in Frantoi Cutrera extra virgin olive oil. To this, the tomato sauce and the other ingredients are added, including the wild fennel seeds, in a low pressure cooker to preserve the organoleptic characteristics of all the raw materials. The sauce has an intense red color, with aromatic notes of tomato, fennel and bay leaves. The consistency is velvety.

For our Segreti di Sicilia farmer's sauce with fennel seeds we choose Sicilian wild fennel seeds collected in our territory. Fennel is a very fragrant aromatic herb that grows spontaneously in many areas of Sicily: it is used in many traditional preparations and also in the seasoning of the typical sausage prepared in the eastern part of the island. It has valuable carminative (i.e., absorbs and eliminates gas from the intestine), antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Our Segreti di Sicilia line of preserves was born from the love for this land and its traditions, from the scents of our childhood, from our grandmother's secrets and from the rediscovery of an authentic and genuine past. Each product speaks of a specific territory, of a biodiversity that the world envies us. We choose each of them from our own crops or from our network, small and local productions and farmers who work the land with the same passion and respect as in the past. These genuine products are then transformed in our modern canning plant with the help of latest generation machinery. We use innovative cooking and preservation techniques that guarantee absolute respect for the original recipe and, at the same time, the preservation of all the organoleptic characteristics of the fresh product and its main nutritional aspects. The absence of preservatives and colorings allows you to taste a genuine product.