Name: Sweet-and-Sour Tomato Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 5 min
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 1 cup canned tomato sauce; 2 cups water or chicken broth or beef broth; ½ cup raisins; ¼ cup brown sugar, or to taste; 3 cloves garlic, minced; 1 small onion, finely chopped; 6 pitted prunes, finely chopped; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; 1 cup tomato ketchup

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

Healthy Jewish Cooking

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2000

About

This sweet and sour sauce is of relatively new coinage. (Tomato ketchup didn’t become commercially available until 1875.) But the interplay of sweet and sour has struck a chord in the sensibilities of Jews around the world.