Description
Easy oven-roasted cherry tomato sauce is a good one to have up your sleeve whether it’s tomato season or not. It makes the best pizza topping, addition to soups and stews, pasta sauce, or just cooking all-rounder.
Ingredients
Scale
- 500g cherry tomatoes
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 sprigs thyme
- 1/2 onion
- drizzle of olive oil
- 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 100 degress celcius. In an ovenproof dish, place all tomatoes in a single layer. Cherry tomatoes can be left whole, however, larger tomatoes need to be cut in half.
- Add the cloves of garlic, onion and sprigs of fresh thyme. Drizzle with olive oil.
- Bake in the oven for 1 hour.
- Remove tomatoes from the oven. Discard thyme sprigs and squeeze the garlic cloves to get the roasted garlic mush from inside. Discard outer garlic skins.
- Pop everything left on the baking tray into a blender and blitz until smooth to reveal a luscious tomato sauce.
- Pop the sauce into a saucepan. Add the chili flakes and sugar and give a good stir. Bring to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes. this reduces any water in the sauce and concentrates the flavour.
- Season with sea salt flakes and freshly ground pepper.