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Hot tomato sauce

Name: Hot tomato sauce
Prep time: 42 min
Total time: 42 min
Yield: 300 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 500 g tomato; 100 g red onion; 1 garlic clove; 1 lime; Fresh coriander (cilantro); 2 tablespoons olive oil; Tabasco; Salt; Pepper

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.

140 K 3.9/5 (25 reviews)606627

Duration

45 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 25^th 2026

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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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

45 min.

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Step by step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 20 min.

Peel 500 g tomato and dice small.

Step 2 - ⌛ 5 min.

Take 1/3 of the tomatoes and blend them.

Step 3 - ⌛ 10 min.

Peel 100 g red onion and chop finely.

Peel 1 garlic clove and chop finely.

Step 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.

Step 5 - ⌛ 1 min.

Add the blended tomatoes.

Step 6 - ⌛ 2 min.

Finally, add the roughly chopped coriander and mix well.

Step 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.

Source: Homemade.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	1 g RDI=2 %	6 g RDI=2 %	4 g RDI=5 %	60 kcal RDI=3 %	250 kJ RDI=3 %
Whole recipe	8 g RDI=12 %	42 g RDI=16 %	28 g RDI=38 %	446 kcal RDI=22 %	1,869 kJ RDI=22 %