Homemade tomato sauce
If you’ve never tried making your own tomato sauce, you’ve got to give it a go! It tastes so much better, skips the preservatives and high sugar content, and is easy to do.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 red onion finely diced
- 1 clove garlic clove crushed
- 4 vine tomatoes chopped
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 pinch mixed herbs
- ½ cup water
- sea salt and pepper to season
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a saucepan before sautéing onion, garlic and tomatoes for 2-3 minutes.
- Add balsamic vinegar, brown sugar and tomato paste then mixed herbs and water.
- Simmer for about 10 minutes until thick. Season with sea salt and pepper. Sauce will keep in a jar in the fridge for a couple of days.
- Please note nutrition values below are for the entire recipe, not per serve. Recipe makes around 1 cup of sauce.
Notes
This tomato sauce is such a useful recipe to have on hand – and because you’re making it at home you avoid all the additives and excessive sugars in some other versions. It will keep in the fridge for a couple of days as well, so you can prepare it in advance.
Serve this sauce with twice-cooked hand cut chips, herby panko-crumbed fish and pink mayo for a healthy version of Friday night fish and chips – a Kiwi classic that the kids will love!