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Tomato sauce

 

Salsa
  • 1 KG TOMATOES
  • 2 CLOVES GARLIC
  • SALT AND FRESH MILLED PEPPER
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  • 500 GRAM TOMATOES
  • 2 CHILI PEPPERS
  • ½ TSP CUMIN POWER
  • ½ BUNCH FRESH CORIANDER
  • 1 SMALL ONION
  • 2 CL GARLIC
  • 1 TBSP LEMON JUICE
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Chop the onion and garlic and fry them during five minutes. Cut the tomatoes in four and add them to the onions. Fry on medium heat for 15 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. For the best result, push the mixture through a sieve. If you don't want to do that or are stressed for time, puree the mixture in the kitchen machine.

Cook the tomatoes 2 minutes and take of the skin. Chop the tomatoes, the chili peppers, the onion and the garlic. Put all ingredients together in a kitchen machine and mix shortly.


Tips
 If you fry a red sweet pepper with the tomatoes, the color will become nice bright red. You can also add thyme, oregano and/or basil. You can add some red or white wine but then you must let the mixture cook a little longer. Tomato sauce is an ideal ingredient for pizza, pasta, osso buco and many sauces like cocktail sauce.


Salsa has most probably an Aztec Indian background and is made of tomatoes and chillies as main ingredients. Salsa means "sauce". Salsa is cooked shortly and is not sweet or caramelized.

Chutney comes from the Indian "chatni", which means "strongly spiced". Normally, it is made out of fruit pieces, vinegar, sugar, peppers and/or other spices.  
Chutney is nice with Indian food but also as a replacement of mustard with cheese.  

Relish is more or less the same as chutney; the cooking time may be a bit shorter though. Therefore, chutney is normally softer and the sugar may be caramelized.