Sweet-and-Sour Tomato Sauce

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 tomato ketchup; ¼ cup brown sugar, or to taste; 1 cup canned tomato sauce; 3 cloves garlic, minced; 6 pitted prunes, finely chopped; 2 cups water or chicken broth or beef broth; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ½ cup raisins; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; 1 small onion, finely chopped

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.

Ingredients

1 cup canned tomato sauce
1 cup tomato ketchup
2 cups

Sauce
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Combine the ingredients in a large bowl and stir to mix. Pour this mixture over the cabbage and bake as described above.