One of my regrets in life is never getting my grandmothers recipes before she passed. There a few things I've managed to recreate but there is one I'm still struggling with.

 

It's a onion base sauce and typically cooked with a meat. My grandmother particularly made braciole, pan seared it and cooked it in the onion sauce for a couple hours if not half the day+ and you would eat it separate or cut it up into the pasta if you wanted. Here is roughly what it looked like when you removed the meat and just had the sauce on the pasta.

 

I can do the braciole just fine but I havent gotten down the onion sauce yet. Does anyone have family that used to make this that can give me or point me to a recipe? Been very hard for me to find much. 

 

 

Edit: for anyone wondering it is NOT a strong onion flavor. It's actually very sweet with some onion flavor. Your kitchen and clothes however...will stink for days...but its awesome. 

Sorry, I can't help with the secret sauce. My grandmother was from Naples, but her father came from Sicily. She used to make braciole often, which was fantastic just like most anything else she made. My mom made it a few weeks ago, but I'd just blown up a molar on a cherry pit, so I had to pass. I think I'll ask her to make it again as my first meal after the implant goes in 6 months or so from now.

5 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Sorry, I can't help with the secret sauce. My grandmother was from Naples, but her father came from Sicily. She used to make braciole often, which was fantastic just like most anything else she made. My mom made it a few weeks ago, but I'd just blown up a molar on a cherry pit, so I had to pass. I think I'll ask her to make it again as my first meal after the implant goes in 6 months or so from now.

Few things better than braciole cooked on low in a pot of fresh sauce all day.

 

My grandfather was from Naples and my grandmother from the northern Calabria region. Her father was actually killed on a train during WW2. I forget the details but the British bombed a civilian train he was on because they suspected they were concealing supplies. 

On 9/5/2025 at 6:44 AM, Functional said:

Few things better than braciole cooked on low in a pot of fresh sauce all day.

For sure!

On 9/5/2025 at 6:44 AM, Functional said:

My grandfather was from Naples

My grandfather was from Bari. Still have a bunch of relatives who live there. They still keep photos on the walls of the family who immigrated back in the early 20's.

@Functional

My entire family on both sides are Sicilian. 

I’m 2nd generation
My wife has my grandmother’s recipe book but a lot isn’t written down..They just did it thier way 

What you posted looks familiar tho, I’ll check 

 

 

 

 

Mike