Sauce Vierge

Name: Sauce Vierge
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp red wine vinegar; zest of ½ lemon; salt and black pepper; 4 ripe tomatoes, diced; 2 small shallots, finely chopped; a small handful of basil leaves, chopped; 1 garlic clove, crushed; a small handful of flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom

By Prue Leith

Published 2024

About

This is a really useful French sauce – good with almost everything. I sometimes serve it on top of an omelette, but it is more usually served with fish, either grilled (broiled) or poached, and with chicken or hard-boiled eggs.

Ingredients

2 small shallots, finely chopped
4 ripe tomatoes, diced
a small handful of basil leaves

Europe
France
Sauce
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Vegan

Method

Mix all the chopped ingredients together, then add the rest, stirring gently. Taste, then adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper. Leave the sauce to sit for 15 minutes before using.