Sauces
Spicy Tomato Sauce for Köfte
Ingredients
- 1 large onion
- ½ doz. medium-sized closed cup mushrooms,
- cut into quarters
- 2 large beefy tomatoes, skinned and coarsely
- chopped
- 1 level tbsp. tomato purée
- 1 bird’s eye chilli, finely chopped
- 2 tsp. vegetable stock powder
- 2 or 3 tbsp. parsley, chopped
- 1 tsp. Joan's mixed dried herbs
- 2 tsp. paprika
- Salt/Ground Pepper
- ¼ orange pepper, cut into small pieces
- ¼ green pepper, cut into small pieces
- A little boiled water
Method
1
Chop onions coarsely. Fry in a little olive oil until softened. Add the mushrooms to the onions and cook for 2 to 3 minutes more.
2
Skin tomatoes and chop. Add to the onions and mushrooms together with the tomato purée, chopped chilli pepper and the bouillon powder. Simmer a couple of minutes.
3
Add some of the chopped parsley, the dried herbs, paprika and seasoning. Add a little boiled water according to how thick you want the sauce, put on the lid and simmer slowly for about 10 minutes.
4
You can add half-grilled köfte (10-12) to the sauce at this stage and let them finish cooking in the simmering sauce. Sprinkle over the remainder of the chopped parsley.
5
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