List of 14 recipes using Tomato paste

Tomato and courgette tart

This summer tart has a puff pastry base topped with a rosette of sliced tomatoes and sautéd courgettes. For a more substantial dish, add some diced feta on top before cooking.

Cretan-style salmon

Cooked chopped leek and shallot with cubes of salmon, served in a yogurt, tomato and feta sauce.

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.

Couscous

In couscous, the meat and vegetable mixture is rather long to cook, but not difficult. And the couscous itself (a kind of coarse semolina) is simple and quick to prepare.

Creamy spinach à la Lombarde

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

Green beans "Napoléon"

Apparently, Napoléon Bonaparte had a delicate stomach, so his cook made his cream sauces a little gentler with tomato. Here is a version for green beans, cooked in two stages, with a cream and 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, mustard and tuna cake

Here's a recipe for a very moist, savory tuna and tomato cake, with a hint of mustard.

Loaf for "les filles'"

This loaf for "the girls" in three colours is made by putting together three doughs, each with a different flavour: tomato for the red, pesto with olives for the green and onion for the white. The three different doughs fuse as they rise together in the tin before cooking, to produce an unusual bread with surprising flavours.

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.

Taos hotpot

This hotpot inspired by a stay in Taos (New Mexico) is a mix of different meat and vegetables cooked long and slow, served with polenta. The preparation is rather long, as is the cooking time, but it reheats very well.