Tomato Sauce | The Flexible Chef
October 18, 2023
Tomate triturado is crushed tomatoes which you can easily buy in tins here in Spain. It is not as dense as passata or tomate frito and makes a rather special tomato sauce for pasta or anything else that calls for tomato sauce.
It takes a short time and a few ingredients to make this scrumdiddlyumptious sauce.
Add 2T olive oil to a pan over low medium heat and add one onion, blitzed in a blender. Gently fry with a pinch of sea salt until soft but not brown. Be careful not to burn.
Add finely grated garlic (5 cloves), stir and cook for a minute or so.
Add 1t dried basil, good pinch or two of red chilli flakes, ground black pepper and ½t sugar. Stir and cook for two minutes
Add 800g can of triturado. Stir and continue cooking. Gently cook for 10 minutes, adding water as necessary.
Towards the end of cooking add a large knob of butter. When melted and mixed well the sauce is ready.
