I saw this idea on pinterest, which appears to be the newest way to suck time from my productive life. having said that I have seen several ideas that I want to give a try along with far too many that use packages of this and packages of that. Any way I happened upon this idea last week and thought since we are in full tomato season this along with canning would be a good way to preserve the wonderful taste of in season tomatoes to use in the in depths of winter.
I can not really give measurements, but I will give approximately what I used. I would normally not have sliced the onions so thin for this but I had a large ziploc bag of sliced onions that needed using up.
8 large field tomatoes cut in to chunks
1 large onion cut up
4 cloves of garlic peeled
bunch of basil torn in to large pieces
3 tablespoons of olive oil
salt and pepper.
Place all the ingredients in a large roasting tin toss together and drizzle the olive oil over.
Place in a preheated 400 oven for about 45 minutes. I stirred everything up about halfway through. The tomatoes should be thoroughly cooked and starting to char on the edges.
Leave to cool slightly then in batches place in a food processor and wizz up to form a lovely rich thick sauce.
This sauce was so full of flavour it was amazing, and so simple. You could of course use this right away as a sauce for pasta, or a with a little chicken stock added it would make a wonderful soup. I decided to freeze this sauce for later, it made enough for two medium containers of sauce to use this winter.
I have a brand new upright freezer, which I am determined to keep organized and inventoried, and so I even labeled the containers. Hopefully this will help in January when I open the door of the freezer and am faced with a multitude of filled containers, that I have no memory of placing there or any clue as to what they contain.
I can not really give measurements, but I will give approximately what I used. I would normally not have sliced the onions so thin for this but I had a large ziploc bag of sliced onions that needed using up.
8 large field tomatoes cut in to chunks
1 large onion cut up
4 cloves of garlic peeled
bunch of basil torn in to large pieces
3 tablespoons of olive oil
salt and pepper.
Place all the ingredients in a large roasting tin toss together and drizzle the olive oil over.
Place in a preheated 400 oven for about 45 minutes. I stirred everything up about halfway through. The tomatoes should be thoroughly cooked and starting to char on the edges.
Leave to cool slightly then in batches place in a food processor and wizz up to form a lovely rich thick sauce.
This sauce was so full of flavour it was amazing, and so simple. You could of course use this right away as a sauce for pasta, or a with a little chicken stock added it would make a wonderful soup. I decided to freeze this sauce for later, it made enough for two medium containers of sauce to use this winter.
I have a brand new upright freezer, which I am determined to keep organized and inventoried, and so I even labeled the containers. Hopefully this will help in January when I open the door of the freezer and am faced with a multitude of filled containers, that I have no memory of placing there or any clue as to what they contain.
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