Healthy tomato sauce
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 4
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- 1 onion
- 50g spinach
- 20g tomatoes of your choice
- 1 clove garlic
- 50g tomato puree
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 100ml water
- 400g tin tomatoes
- 1 tsp sweetner or honey (optional)
Method
step 1
Finely chop the onion, spinach and garlic. Add to a pan. Instead of using oil, to help soften the onion add a spoon of water. Cook for 5 mins until soft.step 2
Add the fresh tomatoes (chopped), the tomato puree, the water, stock cube and the tinned tomatoes. Add sweetener/honey if you have chosen to. Mix until all combined. Season with salt and pepper.step 3
Leave to simmer (with the lid on ajar), for 10 mins. At this point, if you want to make it a smooth sauce, pour into a food processor and blitz until smooth.