Enjoy Your Food with this healthy and tasty tomato sauce

Tomato is a very versatile ingredient and, thinking about it a bit, it is present in many of my recipes, more than I would say a priori. It can be the star of a dish, but it shines the most when accompanied by other ingredients, especially mashed or in the form of a sauce, and that is why this recipe is a kitchen staple that, thanks to the Thermomix, we can have made at home in a moment, without any effort and very important: no splashes!

This recipe from fried tomato or tomato sauce with Thermomix, homemade and delicious it could not be simpler to elaborate and the best of all is that it goes full of fresh and natural ingredients achieving a powerful and irresistible flavor.

We only need a few good tomatoes ripe or even a canned crushed tomato that we like (there are some very good ones, ideal for when tomatoes are not in season), and starting with a simple sauce with garlic and onion we will get fantastic tomato sauce and even being able to choose if we want it more or less lumpy.

If you like homemade sauces, do not miss other recipes made with Thermomix such as bechamel sauce for coverage in Thermomix, without lumps and creamy the bolognese sauce with Thermomix, very tasty wave homemade mayonnaise with Thermomix, very fast and simple.

And if you are interested in other recipes with Thermomix in which the tomato is used, do not miss the macaroni with chorizo ​​and tomato in Thermomix, great! wave Bolognese meat lasagna with Thermomix and its bechamel sauce, irresistible! You’ll also love the aubergines stuffed with meat with Thermomix, very easy and delicious you will use this tomato for your pizzas made with homemade pizza dough in Thermomix and you will enjoy recipes full of vegetables such as traditional Manchego ratatouille with Thermomixthe Cordovan salmorejo in Thermomix or the famous Andalusian gazpacho in Thermomix, refreshing and healthy.

Ingredients to prepare fried tomato or tomato sauce with Thermomix, homemade and delicious:

  • 800 gr of canned or fresh crushed tomato. If you are going to use it fresh, below you will see how to crush it with the Thermomix, and the ideal would be to use ripe plum or vine tomatoes.
  • 120 gr of onion (approximately half an onion) in 2 pieces.
  • 2 peeled garlic cloves.
  • 40 gr of extra virgin olive oil.
  • 1 dessert spoon of sugar.
  • 1/2 dessert spoon of salt.

Preparation, how to make the recipe for fried tomato or tomato sauce with Thermomix, homemade and delicious:

  1. if you are going to use fresh tomatoes You have two options, either grind them now at the beginning so that they are completely liquefied or grind them later so that the tomato sauce obtained is lumpy.
  2. To grind them at first, cut them into quarters, put them in the Thermomix glass and grind for 30 seconds at speed 5. Then lower the remains of the walls and grind them for 1 minute at speed 10. If there are still visible lumps, skins or seeds, grind again 1 minute at speed 10. Reserve separately.
  3. We begin to prepare the fried tomato. Put in the glass of the Thermomix the onion the teeth of Garlic and the oil and chop 5 seconds at speed 5.
  4. Lower the remains of the walls with the spatula and fry for 8 minutes at 120ºC and speed 1.
  5. We already have the garlic and onion sauce ready for the tomato sauce
  6. Add the sugar the Salt and the tomatoes. If the tomato was fresh and not crushed, throw it into quarters and crush for 15 seconds at speed 5, remember that with this what you get is a coarser fried tomato. Scrape down the remains with the spatula.
  7. We start cooking the tomato sauce with Thermomix
  8. Now it’s time to cook ketchup. Program 20 minutes if the tomatoes it is canned and 30 minutes if it is fresh, at Varoma temperature and speed 2, and instead of the cup put the basket (or the anti-splash grid if you have the TM6) to facilitate evaporation
  9. We already have the fried tomato ready with Thermomi.
  10. Once ready the fried tomato and, being careful not to burn yourself, try it in case it lacks Salt or if you have to add sugar to counteract the possible acidity of the tomato.

Time: 45 minutes

Difficulty: easy

Serve and taste:

Freshly made it is delicious, ready to accompany all kinds of dishes and give them a homemade and delicious touch. Keep this sauce in a closed container 3-4 days in the fridge or even some more, and you can also freeze it without problems and even make preserves in glass jars

It is an ideal sauce to use in pasta dishes, pizzas, vegetable dishes, empanadas, stews and stews… It is a perfect wild card in the kitchen. The flavor of this tomato sauce is very authentic and natural, and with good seasonal and ripe tomatoes It remains authentic … scandal!

Variations of the recipe for fried tomato or tomato sauce with Thermomix, homemade and delicious:

Let’s say that this is the basic preparation of the tomato sauce but it admits several changes. For example, you can aromatize including some spices like black pepper and also aromatic herbs such as basilthe oreganothe thyme or the rosemary.

You can also enrich it by adding more vegetables such as red pepper, green pepper, carrot or leek.

Tips:

How does it take so few ingredients the most important thing is that they are tasty and quality. The olive oil, if possible, should be extra virgin, and as for the tomatoes, the ideal is that they be pear-type or on the branch, that they are in full season (summer is the best time) and ripe. Personally, in winter I usually resort to canned tomato already crushed and sifted, without skins or seeds, achieving a very good result.

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