raw food Recipes #205 Bolognese sauce

#205 Bolognese sauce Makes enough for two to share

Equipment

blender

Ingredients

1/2 C sun dried tomatoes
10 plum tomatoes or equivalent
1 Cox's apple
2 dates
1T olive oil
a handful of fresh basil
juice from 1/2 a lemon
1t dried oregano or a sprig of fresh if you have it
1 clove of garlic
1/4 t Himalayan rock salt
1/2T tamari soy sauce

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Sylvia for the recipe idea.

Bolognese sauce

The secret of this recipe is to use really good quality tasty tomatoes. The better tasting the tomatoes are, the better this sauce will be. If you can get hold of fresh oregano that will add to the flavour too.

Soaking

Soak the sun dried tomatoes overnight using just enough water to cover them.

Method

Wash all the ingredients as necessary.

Core the apples.

Chop and stone the dates.

If you are using larger tomatoes then remove the skins. To do this dunk them in boiling water for half a minute so that the skins split and can be removed easily.

Juice the lemon half.

Finely chop the basil.

If you are using fresh oregano then finely chop that too.

Blend everything together, except the fresh herbs, to make a smooth sauce. Finally pulse in the fresh herbs.

Allow time for it to marinate

You can use it freshly made but it's tastier if you can leave it for half a day for the flavours to develop.

Serve

Delicious served as a sauce with courgette noodles.

It's also very tasty with crackers.

Afterwards

Clean the blender

Recycle the waste