Roast tomato sauce

Name: Roast tomato sauce
Yield: Makes 1 cup
Ingredients: salt, to taste; 500 g ripe tomatoes; freshly ground black pepper, to taste; ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Makes
1 cup

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Wild Weed Pie

By Janni Kyritsis and Roberta Muir

Published 2006

About

Make this very simple sauce in the middle of summer, when tomatoes are at their peak. In winter, it’s better to use good Italian tinned tomatoes, rather than tasteless, under-ripe fresh ones. I always roast tomatoes when making a tomato sauce, in order to get the most flavour. This sauce is perfect as is over pasta.

Ingredients

500 g ripe tomatoes
¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
salt, to taste

Method

Preheat oven to 175°C. Cut tomatoes in half, place on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast until soft, about 1 hour