Pasta sauce/ pizza sauce

Pasta / pizza sauce

January 07, 2015




Ingredients:


Tomatoes                   : 6 nos
Onion                        : 1
Garlic                        : 4nos
Bay leaf                    : 1
Green capsicum       : 1 small pc
Salt as needed
Sugar                        : a pinch
Tomato sauce           : 1 tbsp
Pepper powder         : 1 tsp
Olive oil                   : 4 tbsp


Method     


Chop garlic and onion finely.  
Boil water and put tomatoes in that for 2 mins. Then remove it and put it in cold water.  Remove the skin of the tomatoes and grind it in blender to make a puree.
 Heat oil in a kadai. Add bay leaf and chopped garlic, saute it for a while and add chopped  onion.




Saute it till transparent and the tomato puree to this. Add salt and pepper powder and  tomato sauce.



Mix well boil it in a reduced flame till the sauce becomes thick. Remove from fire and discard capsicum and bay leaf. 




 Prepare pasta and mix the sauce with it.  It can also use for pizza.
   

sauces

Schezwan sauce

January 07, 2015

Schezwan sauce  can be used for making schezwan fried rice, schezwan chicken or schezwan noodles. It can stored in refrigerator for about a week or 10days.





Ingredients: 

For the sauce:

Red chillies                   : 10 nos
Garlic cloves                 : 10nos
Ginger                           : 1/2"pc
Soya sauce                    : 1tbsp
Tomato ketchup            : 2tbsp
Salt to taste
Sugar                            :1 tsp
Oil                                : 2tbsp
Black pepper                : 1tsp
Vinigar                         : 1/4 cup


Method: 


Chop the garlic and ginger finely and keep aside.
Take the dry red chillies and remove the stalk. Take a pan boil this chillies with vinegar, If you want it less spicy remove the seeds of the chillies.




Simmer it for 5 mins. Then drain the chillies ( dont throw the vinegar, can use for grinding it) and adding little vinegar to this  grind it in a mixie to a paste.



 

Heat oil in a kadai and add the chopped garlic and ginger.Fry for a couple of mins and add the chilli paste to this.



Mix well, and add tomato ketchup, soya sauce, salt. pepper and sugar.  Mix it and simmer this for 5 mins.
Now the sauce is ready. Remove from fire and cool it.

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