Nomato (no tomato) Sauce or Paste
If you're allergic to nightshades, this nomato sauce will change your life: pizza, pasta, curries... no more missing out, it's all doable again!
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Servings: 8 portions
Equipment
- Food Processor or Blender
Ingredients
- 100 g diced onion (2 small) (use the dark green part of spring onions or leek if on FODMAP diet or cabbage if allergic to onions)
- 200 g diced pumpkin (1.5 cups)
- 200 g diced carrot (1.5 cups)
- 200 g diced beetroot (1.5 cups) (use canned beetroot if on FODMAP diet)
- 200 g diced celery sticks (1.5 cups) (use celeriac or the dark green part of leek if on FODMAP diet)
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil avocado or coconut oil
- 750 ml water or broth (2.5 cups)
- 125 ml lemon juice or vinegar (1/4 cup)
- 1 tsp salt (reduce if using stock)
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Instructions
- Finely dice all the vegetables (100 g diced onion (2 small), 200 g diced pumpkin (1.5 cups), 200 g diced carrot (1.5 cups), 200 g diced beetroot (1.5 cups)200 g diced celery sticks (1.5 cups))100 g diced onion (2 small), 200 g diced pumpkin (1.5 cups), 200 g diced carrot (1.5 cups), 200 g diced beetroot (1.5 cups), 200 g diced celery sticks (1.5 cups), 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Heat a large pot over medium heat, add the oil (2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil) and then the diced vegetables. Gently fry the vegetables until onions turn slightly translucent and the other vegetables begin softening.
- Add the water (or stock if using; 750 ml water or broth (2.5 cups)) to the pot, close the lid and gently simmer the vegetables until tender and falling apart. You may have to add a little more water.750 ml water or broth (2.5 cups)
- Once all the vegetables are soft, add the lemon juice or vinegar (125 ml lemon juice or vinegar (1/4 cup)) and use a stick blender or food processor to puree the soft vegetables into a paste. Add salt to taste (1 tsp salt ).125 ml lemon juice or vinegar (1/4 cup), 1 tsp salt
- Store your sauce/paste in the fridge if using soon or freeze it to use at a later stage. The amount this recipe yields is about equal to two tins of chopped tomato or two jars of tomato paste.
Notes
To make Nomato Paste, use less water to cook down the veggies. More water will give you a Passata like consistency.
If your Nomato Sauce is too pink, add more steamed carrot or pumpkin.
To avoid you having to regularly cook Nomato Sauce, simply triple the recipe and then store/freeze it portioned out. I usually freeze it in 400g portions (same volume as tinned tomatoes).
To keep your hands from turning red, use a plastic glove clean your hands with a bicarb soda and lemon juice paste.
Substituting cooked tomatoes in a recipe is easy. When the tomato part of the recipe isn't the main ingredient (like in a curry), I have found that about 1/2 to 2/3 of Nomato Sauce instead of tinned tomatoes or tomato paste works well. When making Napoli sauce, pizza sauce or Nomato soup, use the paste 1:1.