Name: My Special Tomato Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: ¾ tsp ground allspice; 2 spring onions, green part only, chopped; ¾ tsp ground cinnamon; leaves from 2 sprigs of thyme; 3 cm (1¼ in) piece of root ginger, chopped; ¼ garlic clove, finely chopped; good grating of nutmeg (about a whole nutmeg); 1 hot red chilli (ideally Scotch bonnet), deseeded and chopped; 2 tbsp demerara sugar, to taste; 400 g can tomatoes; 1 tsp salt; juice of ½–1 lime, to taste

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

Sauce-making is so easy done this way! This spice-fragrant, natural ketchup is delicious in Chicken Kickbabs or with meat, or baked potatoes – or chips, of course.

Ingredients

400 g can tomatoes
3 cm (1¼ in) piece

Method

All you have to do is put everything in a blender and whizz it until smooth, pushing down the gubbins from the sides of the blender once or twice.
Check the taste and adjust the sugar, salt and lime to get the balance you want.
Put into a saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes. Taste again and adjust the seasoning if needed. Keep the sauce, covered, in the

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