One meal pasta sauce
Serves 1-2
This recipe can be used for pasta or you can brown any meat and use this as a tomato cook-in sauce.
If you do not have passata take a tin of chopped tomatoes and blend it briefly or just mash it up a little bit more.
Ingredients
1 carton tomato passata
1 medium onion, chopped finely
1 garlic clove, pressed or crushed
1 tbsp tomato purée
1 tsp sugar
½ glass red wine (optional)
1 tsp dried basil
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
Any vegetables you want to add (e.g. peas, carrots, peppers, etc)
Sprinkling of parmesan cheese (optional)
Water if needed
Method
- Fry the garlic and onions in the olive oil for about 5 minutes
- Add the extra vegetables at this stage if you are using them
- Add the basil
- Pour in the passata and add the tomato purée, sugar and salt
- Simmer on a very low heat for at least 20 minutes
- Taste and add more sugar, salt or water if needed. Stir well
- Cook for a further 5 minutes and mix your pasta into the sauce
- Serve on to a plate and sprinkle on the parmesan if using it
