Tomato Base Sauce
Tomato Base Sauce
Easy and tasty
Ingredients
- 500 gm Fresh tomatoes
- 1 no Onion chopped/grated
- 25 ml Oil 2 tbsp
- 1 no Garlic pod
- 5 ml Crushed Cumin seeds 1 tsp, Jeerakam
- Salt As reqd
- Pepper As reqd
- Red chillies As reqd
Instructions
- Wash and chop tomatoes into chunks (if using fresh variety).
- Place tomatoes and all other ingredients in a pot with a few tbsp of water.
- Simmer till tomatoes are reduced to a pulp.
- Put tomatoes through a sieve or in a blender to form a smooth puree.
- Saute onions in pot.
- Return puree to pot and add a tbsp or more of tomato paste.
- :- This will improve the colour.
- Add in a tbsp of butter and boil the sauce until it is thick and saucy.
- Once cooled, add in chopped greens of your choice.
- :- This sauce freezes very well. When tomatoes are plentiful and cheap, make a quantity and freeze in ice trays. Simply use the blocks as needed. With the addition of thyme, basil, fennel, mint, dhania etc. a variety of distinctive flavours can be obtained.
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