Spicy tomato sauce, olive oil
Photo credit: Céline de Cérou
Ingredients
For
6
personnes
- 1 kg ripe tomatoes
- 1 red chilli
- 2 onions
- 1 gousse garlic
- ½ c. à café ground coriander
- 1 c. à café paprika
- 2 c. à soupe Nîmes olive oil PDO
Tip
For this spicy tomato sauce, choose an PDO olive oil from Nîmes (intense flavour) for its herbaceous notes, with hints of hay, yellow plum and raw artichoke, possibly complemented by red plum and apple. Or another intense-flavoured olive oil: PDO olive oil from Aix-en-Provence, PDO olive oil from Haute-Provence, or a French olive oil from varieties such as Picholine, Rougette de l’Ardèche, Aglandau or Salonenque...
Instructions
- Peel and finely chop the onions.
- Peel, remove the germ and crush the garlic.
- Wash and chop the tomatoes, then put the pieces through a food mill (using a fine sieve to remove the skin and seeds).
- Wash and chop the chilli.
In a frying pan, fry the onion in Nîmes olive oil PDO, then add the chopped chilli and garlic and the spices. Fry for 2 minutes, then add the tomato purée and cook for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Keep in a sealed jar in the fridge for 8 days.
- It goes perfectly with pasta, rice…
Tip
For this spicy tomato sauce, choose an PDO olive oil from Nîmes (intense flavour) for its herbaceous notes, with hints of hay, yellow plum and raw artichoke, possibly complemented by red plum and apple. Or another intense-flavoured olive oil: PDO olive oil from Aix-en-Provence, PDO olive oil from Haute-Provence, or a French olive oil from varieties such as Picholine, Rougette de l’Ardèche, Aglandau or Salonenque...
We recommend...
For this recipe, we recommend an PDO huile d'olive de Nîmes (intense flavour) for its herbaceous aromas and notes of hay, pineapple, yellow plum and raw artichoke, possibly complemented by red plum and apple.
Don’t have any? Then choose an intense-flavoured olive oil from another PDO range: huile d'olive de la Vallée des Baux-de-Provence PDO, PDO huile d'olive de Provence, PDO huile d'olive du Languedoc, PDO huile d'olive de Haute-Provence, PDO huile d'olive de Corse - Oliu di Corsica, PDO huile d'olive d'Aix-en-Provence.
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