Homemade Tomato sauce recipe
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| Homemade Tomato sauce recipe |
The homemade Tomato sauce recipe is one of the sauces included in the basic sauce or mother sauce besides veloute, bechamel, demiglace or butter sauce.
Before you make food with sauce you need to know about the sauce, first. Every country has their own style in making Homemade Tomato sauce recipe. Like American style, French, Italian, and so on. But the basic ingredients are the same, tomato, only a few other ingredients are added that make it different.
This time I try to discuss making Homemade Tomato sauce recipe from Italy, and they call it salsa in Pomodoro. The homemade Tomato sauce recipe is a basic sauce for making pizza, pasta, seafood and for meat dishes.
Ingredients for Homemade Tomato sauce recipe:
- For 200 ml of tomato sauce.
- 250 grams of fresh ripe tomatoes. Diblanching, skin, and seeds are removed, then chopped roughly.
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste.
- 1 tablespoon garlic, finely chopped.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil.
- 5 fresh basil leaves.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
How to make Homemade Tomato sauce recipe:
- Heat olive oil or olive oil, then saute garlic until fragrant.
- Add tomato paste, stir briefly then add the tomatoes that were prepared earlier. Let it boil then simmer over low heat until the tomatoes are cooked / the texture is soft.
- Then add fresh basil leaves. Cook for a while, then season with salt and pepper.
Note:
If Homemade Tomato sauce recipe feels a little sour, sugar can be added. Because tomatoes sometimes have a sweet taste or vice versa have a slightly sour taste.
Tomatoes that have a soft texture require a shorter time to cook. Meanwhile, if the tomatoes are young so the texture is rather hard, it can be mixed with a whisk balloon to get a soft texture.
This tomato sauce (Italian) does not require flour or roux as a thickener. Tomatoes cooked with sufficient time will achieve perfect thickness.
Some sauces derived from tomato sauce:
Marinara sauce: added chopped parsley to seafood dishes.
Puttanesca: added with anchovies, olives, capers, and oregano, has a prominent salty taste.
Arrabbiata: has a rather spicy taste, because it added Chilli peppers/chili.