Spicy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce
"Medium-spicy flavor, tangy tomato taste (only for real sun-dried tomato lovers) and a bright, sweetish accent from the touch of orange and cinnamon. Use the best sun-dried tomatoes for this recipe. Try it on pasta (I suggest about 1/2 cup per 4 ounces pasta) with parmesan cheese or crumbled feta or toss with beans. It would also make a terrific pizza sauce. This recipe is easily halved and the sauce can be frozen. From Angelica's Home Kitchen in NYC, voted 2006 best vegetarian restaurant."
photo by Andi Longmeadow Farm
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
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7-8 cups
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 4 cups sun-dried tomatoes, dry packed (about 14 ounces)
- 6 cups water
- 1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 3 cups onions, diced
- 1⁄2 cup carrot, peeled and grated
- 6 garlic cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick, 2 inches, 2 pinches cinnamon
- 1 strip orange peel, 1/2 inch by 3 inches, pith removed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 teaspoons sea salt, plus more to taste
- 6 cups water
- 2 -3 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
directions
- Bring 6 cups of water to a boil in a 3-quart sauce pan. Add the tomatoes and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Remove pan from heat and set aside.
- In another 3-quart saucepan, soften the onions in the oil over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, then add carrots, garlic, cinnamon, orange peel, black pepper, cayenne and salt.
- Reduce heat to low, cover the pan, and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Drain tomatoes and add them to the onion mixture along with 6 cups of fresh water. Raise heat to high and bring sauce to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
- Remove cinnamon stick (if using) and orange peel. Add the basil and balsamic vinegar.
- Carefully puree the sauce in batches in a blender until smooth. Season with additional sea salt to taste.
Questions & Replies
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I have a 2oz package of the spicy italian sun-dried tomato,how can I use it?
Reviews
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This was very good as a pasta sauce! It packs a lot of flavor, and a little spice (even with half the cayenne pepper). Enough flavor that a lot of people might use half the amount of sauce for their pasta. Sun dried tomatoes (dry packed) are a low sodium food, so perhaps the first reviewer thought the amount of salt in the recipe was too much for her taste. I always lower the salt in recipes to suit my taste, so I did here too (halved), but I think the amount called for is not an excessive amount for most people. The cinammon and orange flavors are very subtle. I think I was thinking of your Recipe #283035 when I decided to top the pasta with some pine nuts! They went really well with it. Update: I used the other half of this to coat and bake on chicken, then topped it with goat cheese and basil- it was AWESOME! So I am upping my rating from 4 to 5 stars. -
Totally out of this world! I can't say enough good words about this recipe. This is one of the tastiest sauce I have made in years...First off, I did not have any trouble with the saltiness, (maybe mine were in a different container) the salt in fact was perfect~I followed the rest exactly~right on down to the cinnamon stick and orange. There just isn't thing to change, this was right on, and will use this special sauce during the months I can't get tomatoes as I can in the summer. Scratch that~will use completely ALL the time. Thank you so much Kumquat for an outstanding recipe. My very best and thank you! -
This was really good, but really salty! I don't know if the tomatoes I used were particularly salty, but next time I'd rinse them off. I really recommend checking your tomatoes after cooking them, and rinsing them (or maybe even soaking them). Once I got over the saltiness, I really loved the flavour in small doses, and it got better as it sat.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Kumquat the Cats fr
New York City, 72
<p>Clockwise from upper left, my dear friends Cranberry, Quincy, Kumquat and Kiwi. All of our cats were born in the wild and adopted by us. Zaar Chefs I have met so far: Elmotoo, justcallmeToni, ~Rita~, Midwest Maven, Bird&Buddha (both of them) and most recently, Ms*Bindy from upstate New York:) Wonderful, sweet, friendly people and great chefs! Most relevant thing to mention here is that I am a vegetarian, and recently became a vegan (almost 100%). To put vegetables and other things not meat or fish on the table I work as an actuary (in my case anyway, a combination of statistician, number-cruncher and/or programmer). For fun I like to travel. Just came back from Namibia, a peaceful democracy in Africa with lots of animals! Got some terrific pictures of lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, rhinocerous, hyenas, all kinds of antelopes, giraffes and zebras. Namibia is the second most sparsely populated country per square mile, just behind Mongolia. Update: We went to Italy this Spring. We had lots of pizza and pasta. The pizza is so much better in Italy, particularly the crust. The Amalfi coast was absolutely beautiful. Spectacular natural scenery (Canada and Alaska are really beautiful, Patagonia in Chile is sublime, Iceland is unique) has been my latest passion as far as travel destinations but I have seen quite a few big cities too (Paris, Berlin, London and Madrid to name a few). On my bulletin board at work I keep a list of every country I've visited (other than the U.S. of course). So far I've made it to five continents: Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and North America of course. I've got only two other continents to conquer:) I don't usually have difficulty finding vegetarian dishes here in the U.S. or overseas, but finding vegan dishes is much harder. I have no kids, just cats, Kumquat, Cranberry, and more recently Quincy and Kiwi. They are purebreds, of the breed alley caticus (okay, American shorthair I guess). Our cats are not vegetarians, though my boyfriend (significant other, long-term partner, whatever) is. I am a friend of all animals both tamed and wild. In addition I am a freethinker and my boyfriend studies philosophy. Either way, we get along pretty well. Also, please allow me to say that my BF and I recently bought a condominium in NYC.:) Pet peeve? Okay, I don't like public scenes, especially parents yelling at their children, lovers' spats, etc. If it must be done please do it in private:D Participation & Awards:</p>
