Tomato sauce

Tomato sauce is a bright red coloured sauce among the mother sauces.It is a well known sauce all around the world.Umpteen number of derivatives are being made from this sauce,also it is used in many dishes especially of Italian,Spanish and Chinese cuisine.Hence it is referred as a mother sauce.

Tomato sauce with tomatoes

It is commonly used along with meat as well as vegetable dishes without any discrimination.But they are perhaps best known as sauces for pasta dishes.

Tomato sauce

The simplest tomato sauce consists of chopped tomato flesh cooked in a little olive oil and simmered until it loses its raw flavour and taste and seasoned with salt.Stock or wine is sometimes added to keep from drying and also to get a rich flavour.To add more flavour we can optionally add some other spices such as basil,oregano,parsley,red pepper or black pepper as a seasoning agent.