August 22, 2007: Heidi's Hasty, Tasty Love Apple Tree Sauce

After to a greater extent than than 2 weeks of subsisting on meals prepared past times cafes together with caterers, I was looking forrad to around simple, nourishing home-cooked food. Heidi (of 101 Cookbooks) couldn't accept shared her favourite love apple tree sauce recipe at a to a greater extent than opportune time. It's a simple, real rapidly prepared mix alongside a canned crushed love apple tree base, the requisite olive stone oil together with garlic, hence around much-needed zing from dried chilli together with lemon zest. Following Heidi's recommendation farther nosotros served this alongside ricotta together with spinach tortellini, hence for around extra vege activity baked portabello mushrooms alongside quick brush of balsamic vinegar. This was only the hint of summertime I needed to set a trammel inwards my step!

Hasty, tasty love apple tree sauce

1/4 loving cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon fine grain body of body of water salt
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 x 400g cans crushed tomatoes
grated rind of 1 lemon

Stir together the olive oil, chilli, common salt together with garlic inwards a saucepan without heat. Then rut the saucepan upward to medium-high, giving the mixture less than a infinitesimal to saute. Add the tomatoes together with gently simmer the sauce for only a few minutes. Take it off the heat, accommodate the common salt to taste, hence stir inwards the lemon rind, perchance reserving around every bit a garnish.