| Basic Tomato Sauce |
Recipe Type: Dinner
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Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 4
Nothing complex here, just a very basic tomato sauce for use over pasta.
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion. Finely chopped.
- 2 cloves garlic. chopped or crushed.
- Herbs. We’ll get back to this.
- 1 can chopped tomatoes.
- 100g of tomato purée.
- 1tsp balsamic vinegar.
Instructions
- In a pan, heat a little olive oil (bare coating of the pan), then fry the onion and garlic until soft. Add everything else. get it simmering, then put the lid on. simmer for 30 minutes or so. Longer doesn’t hurt.
- Before serving, take a hand blender to it. Not trying to make it smooth, just less chunky. How many people it’ll serve, is entirely dependant on how much you want to put on the pasta.
Notes
You can add just about anything you want to this. Tonight, for example, I added meatballs. It’d work with tuna, ham, or so on. It can work on its own though.
Back to the herbs. As I mentioned in the meaty pasta sauce recipe, I use a mix from Just ingredients. Sesame seeds, sea salt, basil, thyme,oregano,pepper,rosemary. Pretty much any ‘Italian’ mix should work.
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