Healthy Pasta Sauce
A perfect healthy pasta sauce for pasta, meatballs and pizza!
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1 can diced tomato about 400g
- 2 nos shallots cut in halves
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 nos red chilli optional
- 120 g celery roughly diced
- 200 g carrots roughly diced
- 250 g red capiscum or red pepper roughly diced
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 tbsp vegetable stock paste or 1 vegetable stock cube
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 2 tsp crushed black pepper or to taste
- 1/2 tsp red chilli flakes
- 1 sprig of rosemary and thyme
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Place shallots, garlic and chilli in the Thermomix bowl, chop on speed 5 seconds on speed 7.
- Now add the celery and chop on speed 5-7 for 10 seconds. Add in the olive oil and cook on speed 1.5 on 110C/230F for 5 minutes.
- Add in the carrots, capsicum (red peppers) and chop on speed 7 for 10 seconds. Add in the water, vegetable stock paste or cube and can of diced tomatoes.
- Add in the salt, chilli flakes, crushed black peppercorns and herbs. Cook on 110C/230F on speed 2 for 15 minutes.
- Add sugar, mix well and cook for 5 minutes on 120C/250F on speed 2.
- Now blend the sauce on speed 4-8 for 45 seconds.
- Pour it a bowl and let it cool. Store it in a sterilised glass bottle keep it in a refrigerator for 1 week or in freezer up to 3 weeks.
- Use it for pasta, pizza or meatballs.