Michael Martorana’s Sicilian sauce
Sunday
sauce,
any night.
The recipe goes back to Michael’s grandmother in Sicily, passed on to his mama, served for years at his restaurant in Eagle River, Wisconsin. Sweet, a little spicy, and already made for you. Heat it up and pour it over your favorite pasta.
il sugo
sugo (soo-go): Italian for sauce. What Michael’s grandmother called the Sunday pot.
Grandma’s recipe from Sicily
With meat, or meatless
24 oz jars
Made in the USA
Two sauces. One family pot.
with meat
Sicilian Meat Sauce
Slow-simmered with meat, garlic and herbs. Thick enough to cling to rigatoni, rich enough for lasagna.
meatless
Sicilian Meatless Sauce
The same sweet-and-spicy Sicilian sauce, no meat. Gluten free, and the base for eggplant parmesan night.
On Sundays…
“When we walked to church, you could smell the sugo all over the place, because everybody's mom was making sugo.”
Michael, remembering his grandmother’s kitchen
Rotini, straight from Michael’s stove.
What makes it Sicilian
Sweet first, then a little heat.
Sicilian sauces are made sweeter than other traditional sauces. It’s a taste not like other sauces you’ll try, and it keeps you coming back for more.
Stasera
tonight, try it on
- Spaghetti, the Sunday wayOver any pasta you like
- LasagnaLayer it thick
- Eggplant parmesanMeatless is the move here
- Baked pastaRigatoni, ziti, whatever is in the pantry
- Chicken parmesanPlenty of sauce, plenty of cheese
- Stuffed manicottiFor the family that shows up hungry
- Pizza nightIt makes a tasty pizza sauce too
Four kitchens. One pot of sugo.
la famiglia
01
Sicily
Grandma's kitchen
The recipe starts with Michael’s grandmother in Sicily. Sunday meant church, then pasta, with the sugo simmering the whole time.
02
Mama’s stove
Learning by the pot
I learned to make the sauce with my mama in her kitchen. It was a family tradition to make sauce with the pasta for Sunday dinners.
03
Eagle River, Wisconsin
Michael's Italian Restaurant
He served his sauces with his Sicilian dishes, and customers began asking if they could buy the sauce to take home.
04
Store to store
Michael and Diana
In their spare time from the restaurant, Michael and his wife Diana canvassed stores and markets, one jar at a time.
“It is our hope that you will make Michael's Sauces a part of your own family tradition.”
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What a nice surprise when our kids ate every drop of spaghetti made with Michael's Sauce! They had previously turned down anything with tomato sauce in it.
Stephen Waterford
Stock the pantry. Try both.
A two pack of each, meat for Sunday and meatless for the rest of the week. Four jars, four dinners.