| | |  | Pasta Marinara | Home » » » » Bertolli Premium Pasta Sauce, Summer Crushed Tomato & Basil, 13.5-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 6) | | | | | | | Description: | | Share a delicious moment over a plate of your favorite pasta. Imagine a restaurant style pasta sauce, with gently sauteed onions, vine ripened crushed tomatoes, 100% Bertolli Olive Oil, and chopped herbs - all ready for you to heat & serve in just minutes. Bertolli has been at the heart of Italian cooking and eating for over 140 years crafting premium quality Italian olive oil, food and sauces with passion and care. | | | Features: | |
• Case of six 13.5-ounce microwavable pouches (total of 81 ounces)
• Made with plump plum tomatoes
• Enjoy restaurant quality pasta sauce in the comfort of your own home
• No added sugar or artificial sweeteners; low in saturated fat
• Convenient packaging allows for 90 second preparation in the microwave
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 81.0 Ounces | | Package Length:
| 9.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 5.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 110 reviews |
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14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 I love this sauce, and I love the convenient pouchMar 05, 2008
By Kurt A. Johnson
What are the roots of your Italian food maker? Villa Bertolli dates back to 1865 and the Tuscan town of Lucca. Francesco Bertolli sold many fine products, and by the end of the 19th century was exporting olive oil to major cities across the United States. 140 years later, Bertolli still sells quality products, including premium pasta sauces, such as this one.
OK, let's get down to brass tacks. Have you tried Bertolli sauces? If not, then you should, I find them to be quite good, with a pleasing level of spices. But, one problem is that the bottles are too large, and I hate leaving half-full bottles of sauce in my refrigerator. Well, enter this convenient pouch. I don't often cook for large parties, so I like this smaller portion that allows me to cook, and leave no unnecessary bottles around.
You can't please all the people all the time, right? Well, let's just say that I am quite pleased. I love this sauce, and I love the convenient pouch. I highly recommend this product!
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Mama Mia! Convenient and Great sauce!Mar 26, 2008
By Mark F. Braun
Aw, don't listen to those other cynics! I'm a typical working guy who throws together dinners fast before Mrs. B comes home. Pasta on the boil, a little garlic and butter on Italian bread and a fast salad, usually from a bag.
Bertoli makes killer pastas and sauces... period. Want to customize it? Knock your socks off, but I LOVE this sauce for FAST and EASY use: nuke it and go for three people (or two with the bread for dunking).
I'm the food curmudgeon of sorts for FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS, and always see a lot of stuff not worthy of hype: But Bertolli's new sauces in pouches rock. Easy to store and use, decent sodium and quite flavorful. We tried one, btw, on the stove as well: no big deal or difference: Cleanly defined basil and nicely done spices make this a "gotta have" kitchen item that will make you look brilliant with dinners on-the-fly. Bertolli plays for their audience: working people like us who want quality. Well, well done!
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful flavor and convenience for this non-cookMar 10, 2008
By Quickbeam
I do not cook and my husband is a chef. Packaged sauces are pretty much banned from my house. When he is out of town, I like to have food I can prepare quickly for dinner.
This pouch heats up perfectly as directed in 90 seconds. I has a lovely, authentic crushed tomato flavor and mouth feel. It is everything I like in a tomato sauce....spare, elemental but seasoned just perfectly. I shared my sample with a vegan friend (no animal products either of us could deduct in this) who was equally delighted.
I forced my chef-husband to taste it and he declared it "very good". I'd absolutely buy this again in the future for both personal use and for use on the road with RV trips. Absolutely delightful product!
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Excellent taste!Jul 31, 2008
By Kathy W
This is a 13.5 oz plastic pouch. It has an excellent taste, and I am someone who usually makes my own sauce from scratch. (Dad thought he was Italian and he taught me.) Because I work full time (and then some), sometimes I cheat a little with my sauce by using a prepared sauce and doctoring it up a bit. Hey, it saves time. This sauce is good enough to stand on its own (without being doctored up.) I would also rather have a plastic pouch than a metal can with acid-based tomato products.
300 calories per 13.5 oz pouch, this package by itself would serve 1 or 2 people, even though the package says 3. Per package serving (3), there are 6g fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 430 mg sodium, total carbs 10 g, vitamin A 60 %, vitamin C 15%, calcium 15%, iron 4%. Ingredient list in order: (1st listed is supposed to be what there is most of in a product) tomatoes, olive oil, water, onions, carrot juice concentrate, garlic, salt, basil, capers, parsley, oregano, spice. Not bad. If you are watching salt intake, there is usually a lot in prepared foods anyway. I have seen a lot worse. You could do a serving of this plus a salad.
OK, so, like I said, this is good enough to stand on its own. That said, if you want my cheater's recipe, get your pencil.
Cheater's Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
Brown approximately 2 lbs lean ground beef or ground turkey. If beef is not very lean, drain off fat/grease. Add onions, garlic, tarragon, and celery. (Basil and Oregano is already in this mix. So is garlic and onions, but I like more.) If you are in a hurry, use the dried versions of onions, garlic, tarragon and celery flakes. Mix. Add 1 can of diced tomatoes. Mix. Add 3 pouches of this Bertolli sauce. No salt. Mix and let it slow-simmer. If you want to cut the acid from the tomatoes, add about a teaspoon of white or brown sugar.
On the side, boil water for the pasta. Add about a teaspoon of olive oil to the water to keep the pasta from sticking. If you want to flavor the pasta a bit, add about 2 or 3 chicken bullion cubes to the water. Once it boils, add a pound of Barilla Angel Hair pasta, or other preference. I highly recommend Barilla, unless you make your own pasta. Cook it al dente (done, but firm--taste if you must--do not overcook or you will have wallpaper paste or goo.) By the way, I hate to make assumptions here, because I have seen people do some mighty shameful things to pasta. But Hey, if ya don't know, ya don't know. Drain off the water. Don't leave the pasta sit in it. DO NOT rinse the pasta. Once drained, you can drop some margarine in it and stir it up to keep it from sticking as it cools.
Done. Quick/easy/delicious. The sauce has a nice tomato taste even without anything added. You could also buy frozen Manicotti from Costco and pour this sauce over it, throw some provolone cheese on top, sprinkle some oregano and bake your dinner. Easy-to-fix din-din for the workin' momma. Break out a bottle of red wine and enjoy! Put on Barry Manilow's Sinatra music CD for ambiance (or some other music, if you must.)
Now! The question is: Do you cut your pasta or do you twirl it?
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Pleasantly surprisedMar 04, 2008
By Camy Tang
"Romance novels with a kick of wasabi"
I wasn't sure if my palate would be sensitive enough to taste any difference between this product and a jar of pasta sauce like Safeway Select. However, I was pleasantly surprised to be able to tell a definite difference.
Unlike jarred sauces, the tomatoes in this sauce are not as harsh or acidic. It makes for a more sweet, mellow flavor.
It's a chunky sauce that's not too runny, which is what I especially liked about it. I hate runny tomato sauces. It's definitely not as chunky as the sauces I make myself, but the ease of cutting open the package instead of working over the chopping board and stove is worth it.
It's a very simple sauce that lends itself well to additions. I would have liked a stronger basil flavor, but that might be just me, because I love basil.
I added some vegetables and diced cooked chicken to the noodles before pouring the sauce over, so I used a little more than the 1/2 cup serving per person that's on the package. While the package says there are three servings per package, I only got two servings.
In hindsight, this sauce would probably go well with shrimp or fresh mozzarella cheese.
This was a good-sized package for my husband and myself, so that we didn't have leftovers but we were satisfied. Whenever I open a jar of sauce, we always have leftovers in the fridge, which can be annoying if I don't feel like eating a tomato-based sauce in the next few days.
Overall, a good product.
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