Tomato Sauce

2013-07-14

Cuisine: Indian

Tomato Sauce is a base used in many recipes. If you are following SCD, cooking SCD meals can get challenging. Although this sauce is very time consuming but once prepared it can help with a lot of SCD dishes. I’ll be posting various recipes regularly with this sauce so keep this recipe handy.

Ingredients

2 lbs Tomatoes
2 Onions
10-14 cloves of Garlic
3-4 tbsp Olive Oil or Butter
1 tbsp Cumin Seeds

Method

Step 1

Chop the onions and garlic.

Step 2

Add olive oil/butter, cumin seeds and garlic to a big frying pan and place the pan over medium high heat.

Step 3

Add onions to the pan and cover the pan with a lid.

Step 4

Let the onions sweat for 5 minutes on medium high heat while stirring them every minute or two. After 5 minutes, turn down the heat to medium low and let the onions cook till they are golden brown.

Step 5

Place all the tomatoes in a Vitamix or similar blender and blend them to a thick but smooth consistency.

Step 6

Pour the blended tomato paste into the frying pan with the sauteed onions and stir the mixture. Turn up the heat to medium high and let it come to boil.