Passata

Passata

If you have a glut of tomatoes then this is the perfect recipe! Use it as a sauce for pasta, a base for soup or anything else you can think of.

Ingredients

(makes 750 ml)

1 kg ripe tomatoes
6 garlic cloves
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon caster sugar

 

Method

1: Put tomatoes, garlic and olive oil in a saucepan over a medium heat. Cover and cook for 10 minutes shaking occasionally until tomatoes collapse

2: Season and add sugar.

3: Remove the lid and boil for 5 minutes until garlic is soft.

4: Allow to cool and sieve pulp

5: Transfer into freezer proof containers and freeze, or keep in the fridge for one week.

 

Photo by Dennis Klein on Unsplash

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