Tomato Sauce

Food with tomato sauce was not my top choices when eating at restaurants. Because the flavor of tomato are too much too be real tomato flavor. After cooking Bolognese Lasagna, I found out… YES… The really tomato sauce should be like this, a mild tomato flavor with light tomato color. And  it is very scrumptious. Everyone cooks it in different ways. Here is one of my ways to cook it.

 

Recipe: Serve 5~6 people

 

Steps

(1) Heat up the vegetable oil in a big saucepan. Then, put some chili pepper in. Stir around 1 minute.

(2) Then, add chopped garlic cloves into the pan. Cook around 3 minutes to let the oil full of garlic flavor.
(3) Add the quartered tomatoes into the pan. Stir a little bit to let the oil cover the tomatoes. Cover the lid and cook around 10 minutes until it starts to become very soft.

(4) Add the chopped onion and carrots into the pan. Stir it with tomato. Boil it until tomato start to juice.

(5) Pick chili peppers out. Use a kitchen blender to blend all ingredients. Then, put chili pepper back.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: If you love spicy food, it is definitely okay to blend chili pepper with other ingredients.)

(6) Add 2 table spoons of tomato puree and 1 table spoon of soy sauce into the pan.

(7) Simmer it around 60~90 minutes until it turns thick.

(8) Add some sea salt and black pepper to taste

 
I have discussion with my friends that homemade sauces won’t have a very strong color like sold at jar. But, the taste is much better than those. Then, why would we like to buy them? Because of beautiful color? Or, very convenient? I am not sure if I could cook or bake every day after going back to work. But, I would like to try.

It is a very yum tomato sauce that I use this sauce to cook pasta, risotto, roast meal or anything you want. Enjoy it.