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Easy Esselstyn Diet Recipes with Pictures: Homemade Tomato Sauce
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Homemade Tomato Sauce using Green and Ripe Red Tomatoes |
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Dinner Suggestion
Soba noodles
with this irresistible tomato sauce. |
Serving Suggestion
This tomato sauce takes 4 hours to prepare. However, this effort is rewarded by a chunky thick consistency and amazingly rich taste. |
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Get in Advance: 10 ripe red tomatoes 3
green tomatoes, optional 1 onion, chopped 1 green bell pepper, deseeded and chopped 2 carrots, chopped 4 gloves of garlic, minced ½ cup
of fresh basil, stems removed, chopped ½ cup of red wine or low-salt vegetable broth 2 whole stalks of celery 1 bay leaf 2 tablespoons of tomato paste 2-3 springs of thyme or ½ teaspoon dry thyme 3-5 springs of oregano or ½ teaspoon of dry oregano ½ of a quarter teaspoon white pepper 2 tablespoons sugar |
Ingredients
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Recipe (Modified
to Esselstyn diet from allrecipes.com) For 3-4 Portions. Prep time 4 hours. Peel Tomatoes Bing a pot of water to a boil Have ready a large bowl of iced water Plunge whole tomato into boiling water for 1 min until skin splits and starts to peel Remove tomato with slotted spoon and place into ice bath for cooling down to be handled Remove skin, cut in half, remove stem roots and squeeze out seeds Puree 8 of the tomatoes with blender Chop vegetables Chop remaining two tomatoes and set aside Chop onion, bell pepper, carrots and garlic Chop fresh basil Cook tomato sauce In large sauce pan, braise onions 3-5 min until soften and browning Reduce heat, deglaze with ½ cup of red wine or low-salt vegetable broth (shown) Add bell pepper, carrots, garlic and cook for 5 min Add pureed tomatoes Stir in chopped tomatoes and basil Add celery stalk and bay leaf Bring to a boil and simmer covered for 2 hours Add tomato paste, fresh or dry oregano and thyme, white pepper Simmer for an additional 1 hour Reduce volume whith cooking uncovered for another hour Finishing up Discard bay leaf, celery and stems if used Add 2 tablespoons of sugar. |
Workplace Ready for preparing the tomatoes
Briefly dip into boiling water for splitting the
skin
Cooling down in Ice water
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Seeding the skinned tomatoes
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Prepared tomatoes
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Pureeing tomatoes
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Braising onions
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Ready to start the sauce
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Added sauce ingredients
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Shown: Added dry oregano and thyme
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Prepared
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