Great Basic Tomato Sauce
photo by LilKiwiChicken
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 450 g ripe tomatoes, chopped (peeled or unpeeled as you prefer)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 -2 teaspoon tomato puree
- 1 clove garlic, crushed (more if you like it)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil or 1 teaspoon dried basil (add more if you are a basil fan as I am)
- salt
- pepper
- chili powder (optional)
- minced meat (optional)
directions
- If I want to use this as a the basis for a meat sauce or chilli sauce I don't usually bother to peel the tomatoes, when I want a silky smooth sauce that runs beautifully I do peel them.
- You choose Peel tomatoes by covering with boiling water in a bowl for 5 minutes if you want the"smooth" recipe.
- Chop tomotoes into evenly sized pieces.
- Heat olive oil and sauté garlic and onion until soft.
- Add tomatoes, tomato pureé, Basil, salt and pepper.
- Simmer gently got 30-40 until it reduces a little.
- Serve as is, or put in a blender until smooth.
- For Chilli sauce, add 1/4-1/2 teaspoon chilli powder (to your preference) or fresh chillies.
- Adding browned minced meat makes a nice easy sauce for over pasta.
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Reviews
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SO quick, EASY to do! Added more garlic as is personal taste too! Added black olives as had on hand, TRUE! DEFINATELY will incorporate this in other dishes...THANKS from you know who! -
This is a great basic pasta sauce recipe, which can be used as a base for a chunky vege or meat ragu etc. I used this when making cannelloni tonight & it was great. I doubled the recipe, used 3 cloves of garlic & 6T of basil. The only thing I would say is that it might need a little sugar to cut the acidity of the tomatoes, again this is entirely own preference. Thanks Andria.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
kiwidutch
Netherlands
