My Special Tomato Sauce

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

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

Americas
Sauce
Vegan
Gluten-free
Spicy

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