You're gonna love this recipe, this is my five-veg tomato sauce you're gonna love it and you can use
it in so many ways. And it's a great way of getting the good stuff into your kids,
but actually, anyone. So I batch cook it, so you do it like once a month, and then you can freeze a
load you can keep stuff in the fridge, it's really really good. So we're gonna do it in a big old pan
like this, go in with a couple of tablespoons of olive oil. 2 cloves of garlic, just peel it and
squash it. So we're gonna get a gentle perfume out of these. We'll put it onto a high heat now. So
flavour bomb, dried oregano. So give yourself 2 teaspoons of oregano you can start to smell
that straight away. Now if you're doing it for kids, no chilli, if you're doing it for adults
you can have a little sprinkle of dried chilli in there if you want. And then we start adding
the veggies. 2 onion, just roughly chopped because we're going to liquidise this later. So just take
the seeds out of your pepper. Just going to use my thumb to push the seeds in tear it like that, tap
the seeds out and you're good to go. Just tear it up, so it's the easiest thing in the world to do.
I've got a couple of courgettes roughly chop those up, 2 carrots, and last but not least
2 lovely leeks. What I like to do is keep these green parts here for soups and stews
and stuff like that. I'm going to use the green and white part here, make sure it's
nice and clean and free of grit. So I just slice it in half lengthwise and give it a little wash.
Just roughly chop these up. So you know how I love a healthy swap right, but this recipe is
the healthy swap, instead of buying a tomato sauce we're making our own, we're getting more of the
good stuff in there more flavour more goodness. And of course the great thing is we can use this
sauce in so many different ways, it really really works hard. Give it a season with some pepper,
give it a nice little mix up. We'll start it on the hob just to get the heat going and then
I'm going to pop it straight in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius which is 400 Fahrenheit,
leave the lid off and that will concentrate and caramelise those flavors it's going to be
absolutely delicious. So, a little clear up then I'll show you what to do next.
So look at that smells amazing, so look what we're gonna do now is add the tomatoes and passata is
simply crushed plum tomatoes, all the juices in there. Go in with water to really get as much of
the tomatoes out of the pack as possible. So bring that to the boil simmer it for 5 minutes and I'll
show you what to do next. What I'll do now is some simple spaghetti just grab it like that, twist it,
and a simple but beautiful dinner will be on the way. And let's talk about what we can do with
this sauce right, of course we're having it with pasta here but it's brilliant with cannellonis,
lasagnas, you could use it as a pizza topping, you could use it as a soup, you could use it in stews,
curries, there's so many things you can do with it it's a great base sauce. So it's kind
of a gift that keeps on giving and you can use it in so many ways it's very exciting,
also I like to batch it up and put it in little bags and keep it in the freezer so you've always
got this ready and raring to go whenever you need it. So when that's simmered for about 5
minutes we can either mash it up with a potato masher to kind of make it chunky and smooth,
or use a nice little hand blender to get it to the exact texture that you want, so blitz it up.
It's really easy. So once you've got that sauce to the consistency that you love,
you need to have a little taste and balance the flavor, really really important.
Just a little bit of extra salt and pepper. This is ready to go. And this pasta should be
raring to go, so no matter what you do with this incredible five-veg tomato sauce I know
you're gonna absolutely love it. So you want to get a couple of nice big spoons of that
sauce onto the pasta, yeah let's have a little go look at that, beautiful. Undeniably simple
but delicious. Steal a couple of basil leaves. Simple things are often the best,
instead of that jar of tomato sauce kind of generic we've got extra deliciousness,
extra nutrition, and something that will keep on giving you ideas for months to come.
So there you go guys five-veg tomato sauce, delicious however you use it.
Stereo chomping from Oliver. Absolutely delicious.