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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.

121 K 3.9/5 (25 reviews)

45 min.

Easy

2.65 €

300 g

9 Ingredients

Last modified on: September 20^th 2012

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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

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 45 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.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	8 RDI=3 %	40 RDI=4 %	30 RDI=5 %	470 RDI=20 %	1,960 RDI: 20 %
Per 100 g	1 RDI=0 %	5 RDI=1 %	4 RDI=1 %	60 RDI=3 %	260 RDI: 3 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

How much will it cost?

For 300 g : 2.65 €

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