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Tomato Base Sauce

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My son has requested lasagne for dinner tonight (it's his birthday) but I'd no pasta sauce left so time to make another batch

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Yields1 Serving

 ALL recipes are based on a family of four.

 1 TBSP veg oil
 4 large carrots unpeeled and blitzed in my mini processor
 5 sticks of celery also blitzed
 2 onions diced finely
 1 pack of reduced baby tomatoes
 1 tin of tomatoes
 1 carton pasatta
 2 TBSP Tom purée
 2 TBSP Worcester sauce
 1 TBSP mixed herbs
 1 litre of beef stock

1

I sautéed my veg for a few minutes in the oil then chucked everything else in the pot and brought to the boil

2

Then I reduced the heat and left to simmer for 45 minutes stirring occasionally until it was thick and glossy looking

3

Then I blitzed it in the food processor in batches til it was fairly smooth

4

If your family are used to jars then you should probably have a taste now and if it's a bit 'bitter' then you can stir in some sugar to neutralise the tomatoes (Remember a 500g jar of dolmio has something like 6 tsp of sugar in it so you adding a couple to yours is still MUCH healthier)

Tomato Base Sauce

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Ingredients

 1 TBSP veg oil
 4 large carrots unpeeled and blitzed in my mini processor
 5 sticks of celery also blitzed
 2 onions diced finely
 1 pack of reduced baby tomatoes
 1 tin of tomatoes
 1 carton pasatta
 2 TBSP Tom purée
 2 TBSP Worcester sauce
 1 TBSP mixed herbs
 1 litre of beef stock

Directions

1

I sautéed my veg for a few minutes in the oil then chucked everything else in the pot and brought to the boil

2

Then I reduced the heat and left to simmer for 45 minutes stirring occasionally until it was thick and glossy looking

3

Then I blitzed it in the food processor in batches til it was fairly smooth

4

If your family are used to jars then you should probably have a taste now and if it's a bit 'bitter' then you can stir in some sugar to neutralise the tomatoes (Remember a 500g jar of dolmio has something like 6 tsp of sugar in it so you adding a couple to yours is still MUCH healthier)

Tomato Base Sauce
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