Sweet Tomato Sauce

Name: Sweet Tomato Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 × 400 g tins whole plum tomatoes, drained of juice, or 1 kg sweet fresh tomatoes; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 2 × 400 g tins whole plum tomatoes, drained of juice, or 1 kg sweet fresh tomatoes; sea salt and black pepper; 6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; sea salt and black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Moro

By Samantha Clark and Samuel Clark

Published 2001

About

This sauce is delicious even when made with tinned tomatoes. The secret is to caramelise the garlic in the olive oil and to cook the tomatoes slowly until they concentrate their flavour and become sweet. Sometimes we add a little spice at the same time as the garlic, such as cinnamon or chilli when the recipe calls for it.

Ingredients

2 × 400 g tins whole plum tomatoes, drained of juice, or 1 kg sweet fresh tomatoes
4

Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

If you are using fresh tomatoes, you need to blanch them to loosen the skins. To do this, break off the stalk, make a little slit in each skin and pour over enough boiling water to cover them. Count to twenty and refresh with cold water until they are easy to handle. Remove the skins and discard. Cut the tomatoes in half across, seed them and remove any hard core. With the tinned tomatoes, plac