Tomato sauce

22 October 2009

We had a pile of tomatoes to deal with and as a variety of parts of them had gone a bit blight-manky, we decided to make tomato sauce from them. We threw them into boiling water and then cold to get their skins off. I burned my knuckle twice on the metal bowl that held the hot water, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to. The manky bits of the tomatoes were removed and we cut them in half and laid them cut side up on a baking tray.

Over the top we scattered a few sliced garlic cloves, stripped the leaves off a few sprigs of thyme, drizzled some good olive oil over the top and sprinkled it all with a bit of caster sugar. Then we roasted the tomatoes in the oven (200ºC/Gas 6) for an hour.

After that it was just a matter of tipping them into a processor (we used Mum’s fancy new hand-held blender for kicks) and whizzing everything up til smooth.

Now all we have to do is think of a way to use the sauce …

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One Response to “Tomato sauce”

bethany actually
10th November 2009 @ 11:42 am

Caster sugar! I was expecting that ingredient to be salt. Hmm, I might have to try this next time I manage to grow tomatoes, or find some at a farmers market.

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