Sofrito is the based of dishes in Italy. If you add it to soup and risotto or pasta sauce, the dishes will be more delicious. You can make a lot of it, and stock it for a freezer. You can use the basic sofrito depending on dishes by considering how long to sauté. The amount of sofrito for two servings is 200g.
Prepare all the ingredients.
Skin the carrot and celery, and chop them. Chop the onion too. DON'T CHOP TOO MUCH. If the cell break up, the water flow and the pungent taste is easy to come out.
Prepare a frying pan which can put all of ingredients. Put the oil, and heat it up on medium heat. Add all of ingredients and two pinches of salt.
While stirring, sauté on high heat.
After a short time, the water comes out from vegetables like this picture, so continue to sauté them on high heat.
When almost of water evaporate, reduce the heat to low. Then continue to sauté for 20 minutes. Stir them sometimes when it makes a crackling sound.
Overall, you can stop to sauté them until vegetables become yellow like this picture.
Turn up the heat to medium-high, evaporate the water. Then burn the surfaces of vegetables a little. When the sweet fragrant from comes out, stop to sauté. Frying them until turned a little crisp leads to savory flavor.
You can use the sofrito depending on dishes. If you want to enhance more flavor for the dishes, you can continue to sauté the sofrito on medium-high heat until golden brown. It's easy to be burned , so sauté while stirring sometimes. Remove them to a plate, and cool them down.
You can divide them into small pieces depending on the dishes.
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