List of 7 recipes using Tomato paste (lactose free)

Cassoulet

Cassoulet is typical, even emblematic, of southern French cuisine. It is a "slow food" casserole in which meat and vegetables, particualrly dried beans, are cooked together for a long time. Here is a simplified version of this famous dish.

Creamy spinach à la Lombarde

For this recipe, spinach and potatoes are cooked separately, then assembled in a mascarpone-tomato sauce.

Pissaladière with puff pastry

This savoury tart is a traditional speciality around Nice, on France's Cote d'Azur. Originally, pissaladière had much in common with its Italian cousin, the pizza, but made with onions, anchovies and olives, and without tomatoes. This is a slightly different version, more friable (with a puff-pastry base) and using tomatoes.

Tomato sauce (for pizzas)

This is the sauce to put on pizza bases before the toppings.

Cocktail sauce

Cocktail sauce is a spicy mayonnaise with cognac, Tabasco and concentrated tomato paste (or purée) added.

Late-season tomato sauce

As the tomato season draws to a close, you'll often come across offers of tomatoes in crates at the market. This is the perfect opportunity to make a delicious tomato sauce for the coming winter.

Chorba

Chorba is a spicy meat and vegetable soup, typical of the Maghreb. This is my own personal version.