Annabel Karmel's hidden vegetable tomato sauce

Hidden vegetable toamto sauce

This is such a great way to make a delicious sauce with loads of different vegetables. Perfect for batch cooking, you can make lots of meals with this from simple tomato sauce with pasta or rice; put it with mince to make Bolognese or a lasagne. I had to blend my vegetables down very finely to make sure vegetables like mushrooms and courgette were unrecognisable to my fussy lot.
 

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 100g 1 small onion, chopped
• 40g leek, finely chopped (1/2 leek)
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 25g red pepper chopped (one quarter small pepper)
• 40g carrot, peeled and chopped (half a medium carrot)
• 40g courgette, chopped
• 1 X 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 150 ml vegetable stock
• One and a half tbsp sundried tomato paste
• One and a half tbsp tomato puree
• 1 tsp caster sugar

 
Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the onion and leek for approx three minutes, stirring occasionally. 

Add the garlic and sauté for one minute. Add the red pepper, carrot and courgette and cook for a further three minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add the tomato and sundried tomato purees and caster sugar and stir for approx one minute.

Add the tinned chopped tomatoes and stock and simmer uncovered for 25 to 30 minutes, stirring occasionally until thickened. 

Transfer to a blender and blitz the sauce to a puree.

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