Simple Pasta Sauce

Name: Simple Pasta Sauce
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 2 - 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 onion; 1 tbsp cooking oil (I use chilli infused rapeseed oil); 31 g fresh basil; 350 g baby plum tomatoes; 2 tsp demerara sugar; 1 tsp onion salt; 100 ml red wine (any good quality drinking wine will do)

spadget @spadget

This is a basic pasta sauce that tastes really fresh but also really indulgent and yummy compared to anything out of a jar. You can add other ingredients like garlic (which I don't think it needs) or cut out the less healthy elements and it'll still be really nice. I serve it with pasta and meatballs.

Also this is really quick and simple if you have some sort of mini food processor, I use the Kenwood Mini Chopper which I thoroughly recommend (you can buy this in the UK currently for about 15 pounds). You can probably use a stick blender or do it by hand but it might not be as quick.

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Ingredients

15 - 20 minutes

2 - 4 servings

1onion
1 tbspcooking oil (I use chilli infused rapeseed oil)
31 gfresh basil
350 gbaby plum tomatoes
2 tspdemerara sugar
1 tsponion salt
100 mlred wine (any good quality drinking wine will do)

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Steps

15 - 20 minutes

1

Finely dice the onion and cook in a medium sized non stick saucepan with the oil until it starts to brown.
2

Pull the leaves from the stalks of the basil and put to one side. Finely chop the stalks so they're almost pesto consistency then add to the saucepan and mix around a bit.
3

Blend the tomatoes with about half of the basil leaves. If you're doing this in the Mini Chopper you'll need to do it in two or three batches. Add to the saucepan and mix in.
4

Tear up the remaining basil leaves and add to the saucepan.
5

Add the sugar, onion salt and red wine and stir. It'll look quite watery so you can leave it as long as you want at this point to reduce down a bit on a high heat. I probably leave mine for about 5 minutes.
6

That's it. Stir it up and mix with pasta and pop your meatballs on top.