Sweet Homemade Cherry Tomato Sauce
With lots of flavour the sauce is easy to make - and great if you've got cherry tomatoes left over.
Servings 4 people
Equipment
- 1 frying pan
- 1 Rotary Food mill - see note
- 1 Large Bowl
- 1 Knife and chopping board
- 1 Baking tray
- Aluminium foil
Ingredients
- 500 g Cherry tomatoes
- 2 sprigs Basil
- 1 Onion
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 2 tsp Oregano
- 5 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 tsp Sugar
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
Prepare the ingredients
- Pick the tomatoes, wash & cut into half
- Put tomatoes into a bowl, add 3 tbsp olive oil, oregano and some saltmix well.
Bake the cherry tomatoes
- Put the tomatoes onto the foil lined baking tray - cut face down
- Place in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees C for 25 minutes
Combine all ingredients
- Add some olive oil into a frying plan and fry the chopped onion and garlic until soft (about 3 to 5 minutes)
- Add the baked cherry tomatoes and a bit of sugar
- Fry until the surplus tomato juice has dried up. (about 5 minutes)
- At the end add the chopped basil and stir well
Finalise the sauce
- Put the rotary food mill on top of a bowl and add the cooked ingredients
- Simply blend until all the sauce has poured into the bowl
Make your meal
- Simply add to cooked pasta when ready or you can make it in advance and re-heat when required