Name: Flexible tomato sauce
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 2 courgettes (zucchini), finely chopped; 1 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; handful basil leaves, chopped; large pinch of dried chilli flakes (optional); 2 tbsp tomato purée; 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar; 2 bay leaves; 4 × 400 g/14 oz tins of chopped tomatoes; 4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed; 4 tbsp olive oil; 2 onions, finely chopped; 2 sticks celery, finely chopped; 2 carrots, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

The Flexible Family Cookbook

By Jo Pratt

Published 2020

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A homemade tomato sauce is much more nutritious than most bought varieties. This recipe makes a pretty decent-sized batch as it is best to make plenty so you can store some in the fridge to use during the week and keep the rest in the freezer for later use. Use for stirring into pasta, to top pizza bases, for pasta bakes/lasagne or spooned over cooked fish, meat or roasted veg. Or loosen it with some vegetable stock to make a soup.

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