TOMATO SAUCE MY WAY

I recently had a yen for something Italian but I did not want the typical tomato sauce. I wanted to try something different, so I came up with this recipe. It came out delicious and my husband said it was a keeper.

Ingredients:

• 29 ounces of Great Value tomato puree
• 6 ounces of Great Value tomato paste
• 14.5 ounces of Great Value diced tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons of minced garlic
• 1 large red onion, chopped into medium sized pieces
• 1 teaspoon of soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 12 ounces of HEB fire roasted red peppers, drained and diced
• 2 tablespoons of Italian seasoning
• 1 tablespoon of parsley flakes
• salt and black pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to a medium sized sauce pan on medium heat
2. Once the oil is hot, but not smoking, add the chopped onions and saute for about 5 minutes
3. Add in the garlic and continue to saute for about 1 minute, stirring continually
4. Then add in the puree, paste, diced tomatoes, fire roasted red peppers and soy sauce. Continue to stir until the sauce gently starts to bubble.
5. Add in the Italian seasoning and parsley flakes after crushing it between your hands or in a molcajete (mortar and pestle). This will release their flavor and enhance any dish that they are added to. (I do this to all my dry flaked seasonings)
6. Turn down heat to low or simmer and allow to gently bubble, stirring ocassionally, for about 30 minutes. As it is simmering, add salt and pepper to taste

I used this delicious sauce with some beef sausages that I fried. I then placed the sausages in the tomato sauce for the 30 minutes that it was simmering. That way the sausages could absorb some of the flavoring of the sauce. To serve, I placed a half cup of riced cauliflower in the middle of a plate. I then put 3 sausages on the rice and placed one cup of sauce over top of it all.

The sauce has a total of 34.3 grams of carbohydrates and 5 grams of fiber, which gives you 29.3 net grams of carbohydrates. There are 4 servings of sauce and each serving is 1 cup for a total of 7.3 grams of net carbohydrates. The riced cauliflower has 1.45 grams of net carbohydrates for a 1/2 cup serving, and there are no carbohydrates in the sausages, but one serving is 3 sausages

This entire meal, which was both filling and delicious, has a total of 8.75 grams of net carbohydrates.

This sauce can be used in any recipe where a tomato sauce can be used. As Mikey said, “Try it you’ll like it.”