Sorry for the lack of photos but I really wanted to get this recipe up. I promised my friend and congo mate for this about a month ago. Ooooops.
I don't measure anything when I make my sauce so this is approximates. You can add or subtract to taste.
Ingredients:
- tomatoes..In the summer I use my own paste tomatoes. I take about 15 and throw them in my Vitamix whole. If it's not summer I buy a 16 oz can of organic whole tomatoes. and mash them with a potato masher.
-2 chopped shallots
-3 cloves of garlic chopped
-4 tbsp olive oil
-1/4 cup honey
-6 basil leaves chopped
-1/4 tsp Cheyenne pepper (in the summer I throw 1 jalapeno in the
Vitamix along with the tomatoes)
salt, pepper, oregano, thyme,rosemary to taste
In sauce pan heat up oil. Throw in a piece of onion, if it sizzles it's ready. Throw in the rest of onion and garlic. Saute until onions are softened up. Add your tomatoes until boil. Add honey, basil, cheyenne. Bring to a simmer. Add the rest of the ingredients. You can serve it like that or you can cook it down. I usually simmer mine on the lowest heat for 3 hours. The longer you simmer the thicker and sweeter it gets. It's so yummy.
You can use it for everything. We use it for pasta, pizza, lasagna and I freeze it.
Here's my Lasagna featuring my yummy sauce. There's a layer of eggplant (from my garden) in the Lasagna.
