Ingredients

• 4oz onion ( more doesn’t matter) sliced
• 1 big clove garlic
• 1lb tomatoes or 14oz can
• 1 tbsp tomato puree or 3tbsp of passata (more is fine too)
• 1 tsp of ground cumin and 1 tsp ground coriander, and large pinch of chilli powder. Adjust to taste.

Method

In a large frying pan. put the oil, onions, and garlic cooking them until just soft.

Add the tomatoes and cook them until they start looking mushy, then add the cumin, coriander and chilli powder, sprinkling it over and stirring well.

Lastly add the Passata (I had run out of tomato puree, which I was going to use to thicken it, but it doesn’t matter which you use.)

Cook it so that it is gently simmering for about half an hour in total until it is a lovely thick creamy texture. Some of the onions I left thicker to give it a bit of bite.

Notes:

Try experimenting adding other vegetables. Spicy Tomato sauce is great if you add pieces of chicken, to it whilst cooking, and it takes the same amount of time to cook as brown rice.

If you freeze the sauce, you can use it as toppings for jacket potatoes, casseroles of vegetables, chicken pieces, fish, lamb, beef, pork, soya. Just check when cooking that you do not need to top it up with a bit of water or stock.