Tomato Sauce

Name: Tomato Sauce
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 kg firm ripe tomatoes, chopped, or 2 ∞ 450g tins; 4 cm piece orange peel; a pinch of sugar or two; salt; 4 parsley stalks; ½ tsp fennel seeds; 1 small bay leaf; 6 black peppercorns; 2 sprigs fresh thyme or ¼ tsp dried; 2 cloves of garlic, crushed; 25 g butter; 1 medium Spanish onion, finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Bull

By Stephen Bull

Published 2001

About

Everyone needs a good tomato sauce. This one is full of flavour and works pretty well with tinned tomatoes. It’s good with hamburgers, steak, good sausages, and hot or cold starters, and makes a great omelette filling with some grated Swiss cheese.

Ingredients

25 g butter
1 medium Spanish onion, finely chopped
1 kg firm

Europe
United Kingdom
Sauce
Spicy
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
London

Method

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan and soften the onion over medium heat for about 10 minutes, without browning. Add all the other ingredients except the sugar and salt and cook slowly, covered, for 15 minutes. Uncover and cook over low heat for at least half an hour. The longer you cook it the better. At the end of cooking add sugar if necessary – unless the tomatoes are ripe, you’ll need it