Tomato Sauce with Basil

Name: Tomato Sauce with Basil
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ½ tsp sugar; 1 large garlic clove, chopped; A small handful of fresh basil leaves, or 1 tsp dried basil; A small handful of fresh basil leaves, or 1 tsp dried basil; 5 tbsp olive oil; 2 onions, chopped; Two 15-oz/420-g cans of tomatoes, or 1½ lb/675 g fresh tomatoes, skinned, halved and de-seeded; Two 15-oz/420-g cans of tomatoes, or 1½ lb/675 g fresh tomatoes, skinned, halved and de-seeded; 1 celery stalk, cut into 1 inch/2.5 cm chunks (optional); 1 red pepper, cored, de-seeded and chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This sauce is one of the most valuable of all sauces to have in your repertoire. It is so versatile – delicious with vegetables or fish, or in pizzas – and has the added bonus of being low in calories, too. If making the sauce in summer, when fresh basil is available, add the basil when you purée the sauce. I think that fresh basil loses its pungency in cooking.

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Sauce
Vegan
Gluten-free
Summer

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