Simple tomato sauce
Used in 3 recipes on RecipeWiki.
Simple Tomato Sauce is one of RecipeWiki's own base recipes, and this page lists the dishes that use it as an ingredient. Tomatoes are cooked down with basil until the sauce is thick and glossy, tasting of ripe fruit rather than of raw acid or the tin. That plain, rounded flavour is the point: it is a foundation rather than a finished dish. It is the base Pasta alla Norma builds on with fried aubergine, and the sauce Pork and Fennel Meatballs simmer in. Make a double batch; it freezes well in portions.
Most often cooked with
Basil
Garlic
Pork minceRecipes with simple tomato sauce
Golubtsy
Cabbage leaves rolled around seasoned mince and rice, then braised slowly in tomato and soured cream.
Leafy greens
Main courses
Russian
Pasta alla Norma
Fried aubergine folded through a simple tomato sauce with torn basil and salted ricotta, which is the ingredient the dish stands or falls on.
Dinner
Italian
Pork and Fennel Meatballs
Pork mince bound with a milk and bread panade and toasted fennel seed, browned in a pan and finished in tomato sauce.
Cheese