OK so I apologise for not having exact measurements, I'm not a notes sort of person, when I cook food I have a basic recipe and then I just run with it.
Must be doing alright with it cause what I make always comes out so good!
I'm very very picky so if you are too, the ability to tweak recipes to get the flavours and consistency you want is an awesome thing to have
I am somewhat gluten free. I was put on basically the same diet as coeliacs a long time ago and couldn't even tolerate a crumb of normal bread in margarine. Now I can tolerate a little bit, but I still have to be careful.
I asked a gluten free company that I follow to ask their likers if anyone knew of a tomato sauce available in the shops that I could have based on my other allergies, or if anyone had a recipe so that I could make my own.
The post got several replies, and I went over them to decide what I was going to do.
This might be helpful for people on the FODMAP diet -I forget all of what was on there, but as far as I remember I had to cut out things like onion, garlic, chilli, red pepper blah blah
I cannot have these things. Not even the little bit they have in tomato sauce -and it's not even like you have a large amount of tomato sauce when you have it, but it made me sooo sick.
One suggestion was Pams tomato sauce. On the label, if I remember correctly, it said tomatoes, water, and flavourings.
Flavourings.
When you have allergies that are really bad, you need to know exactly what is in products. Not generally. Exactly.
So I emailed them and it came back that it has garlic in it. The "flavourings"? Garlic.
I am still waiting on a reply for select tomato sauce.
It's a bit disappointing that companies don't seem to realise the importance of this.
At the moment companies can put things like red pepper/capsicum, chilli, onion, or garlic under the general heading of "spices" or "flavourings".
I hope that one day companies will be more specific -they wouldn't dare hide wheat or dairy like that these days!
So anyway, there were several recipes, some general, some more specific.
One suggestion was to simmer some tomatoes, herbs, water and beef stock. Well that was out, I can't have red meat and most stock -especially the cubes- have onion in them.
The main theme in the others seemed to be cooking the tomatoes with herbs and oil and vinegar and then sticking the result in the blender.
Sooo that's what I did.
I can only have low acid tomatoes, and where I live they come in 750gm bags, so let's just say that's how much I used haha.
After washing the tomatoes, I sliced each in half, laid them inside up in an oven dish, and then got to work with the flavour.
I sprinkled over some lemon juice and apple cider vinegar and drizzled over some rice bran oil (my preferred oil)
I then added all my herbs. I have some mixed lot that I just chucked in a container since I'd be using it all together anyway -I think there's marjoram, oregano, and sweet basil in there?
I also added dried rubbed mint, some "italian herbs" (a mix by select -you want to read the back, masterfoods has capsicum in it), some home made lemon pepper (again, read the back of what is in the supermarket, all the lemon pepper I found had garlic and onion in it), and some ceres herb salt which is amazing.
I stuck the whole lot in the oven at a high temp (I think 240C?) and just let them get all soft and squishy.
When they were done, I let them cool, peeled the skin off them, and chucked them in the magic bullet until the mix had reached my preferred consistency.
You may want to add a little more oil to the blender if there isn't much liquid in there when you've put all of the tomatoes in. The first time I made this sauce I needed to, but the second time I didn't.
I would say that 750gm bag made roughly 300-400mls
It tastes SO GOOD. You can switch the oil and vinegar around for whatever you prefer, same with the herbs. You can do whatever you like with it!
Don't expect it to be like store bought sauce, you will be disappointed.
It's a very light summery sauce which is exactly the sort of thing I love, so if you're keen, give it a go! It's pretty easy!
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