Tomato Sauce

Name: Tomato Sauce (Salsa de Tomate)
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: ½ clove garlic, peeled and finely chopped; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) ripe tomatoes, skinned, de-seeded and chopped; 2 tablespoons olive oil; ½ Spanish onion, peeled and finely chopped

Salsa de Tomate

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Spain on a Plate

By María José Sevilla

Published 1992

About

Spanish cooks always have fresh tomato sauce to use in their cooking and this is a traditional Basque way of preparing a sauce.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
½ Spanish onion, peeled and finely chopped
½ clove

Europe
Spain
Sauce
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Vegan
Basque

Method

Place the oil in a frying pan and add the onion, garlic and tomatoes to the cold oil. Place over a low heat, cover and cook for 30 minutes until the oil rises to the surface. Leave to cool. Purée the sauce if you want it to be very fine.