This classic homemade red sauce recipe with tomatoes. It takes twenty minutes to make, and can be made with easily available ingredients in your kitchen.
Heat up a big pot of water and bring it to a boil.
In the mean while make a cross slit on the top of all the tomatoes.
Blanch the tomatoes for few minutes till the skin starts to come off. Switch off the heat now and take the tomatoes out of the pan.
Peel off the skin and let the tomatoes cool down and crush them roughly in a blender. Keep it aside.
Making Red Sauce
Heat up Olive oil in a big pan and add chopped onion to it. Saute chopped onion, and garlic in the oil for 2-3 minutes over medium heat. Continue stirring all this while.
Now add crushed tomatoes you made in blender as well as tomato puree/tomato ketchup. Simmer it for 10 minutes, stir it in between to prevent the sauce sticking to the bottom.
Season it with salt, oregano and red chilli flakes, chopped basil.
Mix it well and cook for another two minutes. Switch of the heat and let the red tomato sauce cool down.
Put them in bottles or jar and store it inside the refrigerator or freeze them to use as required.
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You can store this sauce in refrigerator for upto 5-6 days.
It stays good in the freezer for 6-7 weeks.
Other than pizza and pasta, you can serve it with meatballs, sandwiches, spread it inside wraps and with appetisers.