Batch cooking recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 50 mins; recipe has olive oil, onion, carrot, celery, garlic clove, bay leaf, sugar and chopped tomato.
Tomato sauce
Course: Batch cooking
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Olive Oil: 4 tbsp olive oil
- Onion: 2 onions, finely chopped
- Chopped Tomato: 4 x 400g/14oz cans chopped tomatoes
- Carrot: 2 carrots, finely chopped
- Sugar: 1 tsp sugar
- Bay Leaf: 2 bay leaves
- Celery: 2 celery sticks, finely chopped
Directions
- Heat the oil in a pan and add the vegetables and bay leaf. Stir in the sugar with some salt. Gently cook for 10-15 mins until the veg is tender. Stir in the tomatoes and 150ml water. Simmer very gently for 30 mins until the sauce has reduced by two-thirds and is very thick. (If you have doubled or tripled the quantities, this may take up to 1 hr.)
- Stir occasionally, particularly towards the end of the cooking time, so that the sauce doesn't catch on the bottom. If you like your sauce a little thinner, add a splash of water. Serve half with pasta and chill or freeze other half in 1-2 batches for later use (see 'Goes well with' for ideas of how to use up your sauce).
