Ingredients
- 6 tomato.\
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 medium size onion
- 4 garlic cloves or 1 tbsp garlic paste
- 2 bay leaves
- 5 leaves of basil if fresh or 1 tbsp dried basil.
- 4 tbsp olive oil or vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Salt and pepper add to taste
- Half tbsp sugar
- If u want extra spicy put chilly flakes into it
Procedure
- Boil 2 cup of water on high heat.
- Cut the top of tomato and put slice mark all over.
- Put all 6 tomato in the water not more than 1 minute because we doing this just to peel off tomato skin coz it doesn't add to taste or doesn't have any nutrition value :)
- take out from hot water and put immediately in cold water it gives a shocking effect to tomato.
- From the slice mark peel off the skin.
- dice tomato finely in small pieces.
- Grind 3 tomato in mixer and make puree u can replace this step by using tomato puree by adding 3/4 cup of puree.
- Put olive oil in pan.
- after 2 minute when oil is hot put diced onion and garlic into it and saute.
- when onion becomes translucent put diced tomatoes.
- cook for 3 minutes then add tomato puree and tomato paste
- Add salt, pepper, basil , sugar and oregano optional.
- let it simmer for 20 minutes on low heat
- Basically we want raw taste to go from tomatoes.
- Taste it if necessary to cook more add little water and let it simmer more.
- Cool it and use it
This sauce u can use in spaghetti, red sauce pasta, lasagna layering, pizza and many other dishes.
