Tomato Coulis

This coulis was once known as sauce napolitaine and is used in the modern kitchen not only as a sauce but also as a flavouring ingredient for other sauces if they happen to lack body or flavour. Tomatoes are one of the few ingredients used in savoury dishes that contain sugar. They help to enrich and broaden sauces which are thin and acid. For example, a sauce bordelaise may through inattention and the use of inferior wine display these qualities. If tomato coulis is added to the sauce, the