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Hot tomato sauce

This is a quick tomato sauce, just the thing for dipping crisps (chips, if you are American), or nachos. It is very similar to the sauce served with aperitif snacks in Tex-Mex restaurants.

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Last modified on: September 20^th 2012

Keywords for this recipe:Sauce Tomato Chili Snacks Tex-mex Crisps Chips Crackers

For 300 g, you will need:

1 500 g tomato
2 100 g red onion
3 1 garlic clove
4 1 lime
5 fresh coriander (cilantro)
6 2 tablespoons olive oil
7 Tabasco
8 salt
9 pepper
Total weight: 750 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

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42 min.	42 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 20 min.

Peel 500 g tomato and dice small.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Take 1/3 of the tomatoes and blend them.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Peel 100 g red onion and chop finely.

Peel 1 garlic clove and chop finely.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Tip the diced tomatoes into a bowl, as the chopped onion and garlic, the juice of 1 lime and 2 tablespoons olive oil to taste, then salt and pepper.

Stage 5 - 1 min.

Add the blended tomatoes.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Finally, add the roughly chopped coriander and mix well.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

Divide between bowls to put on the table.

Remarks

This is a very approximate recipe, so do feel free to adapt it to your taste by ading a little more of this, a little less of that, especially the Tabasco. You can use chilli pepper if you prefer.

And to drink?

A margarita or maybe a Corona.

Keeping

A few days in the fridge, protected with plastic film.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
469 Kcal or 1,964 Kj	8 gr	42 gr	30 gr
23 %	3 %	4 %	5 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
62 Kcal or 260 Kj	1 gr	6 gr	4 gr
3 %	<1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 300 g : 2.62 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Tomato: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mediterranean toast, Prawn salad with a crunch, Mexican ceviche, Thin summer tart "à la grecque", Spaghetti Bolognese, ... All
	Red onion: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Warm salad of potatoes and purple artichokes, Green Piedmont Salad, Breton coleslaw, Grandma's salad, Salade Niçoise, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rice with spring greens, Mixed vegetable curry, Brussels sprout salad, Kérinou slices, Leek and Jerusalem artichoke soup, ... All
	Garlic clove: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Erika's ceviche, Green hummus, Eggs with tomatoes and courgettes, Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes, Feta and spinach brik pie, ... All

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