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Visitors Recipe
TOMATO SAUCE
Ingredients
1 Kg Red Ripe Tomatoes - chopped; 1 Big Onion finely minced; 2 tbspns Oil, salt a pinch,½ tspn Chillie pwd. ½ cup brown sugar or normal sugar; 7-8 cloves, ½ tspns Pepper Corns crushed; 2 tbspns of Corn flour with ½ cup White Vinegar
Method
Put a vessel on the gas – add oil & fry the onions till soft, lower flame to min. add the chopped tomatoes, Ό cup of water, & cook for ½ an hr. till soft & Pulpy/mushy. Leave to cool for a while, then blend in a mixie & rub the pulp throu’ a strainer. Put this pulp into another clean vessel & keep – add salt to taste, ½ tspn Chillie pwd. ½ cup brown sugar or normal sugar; Put all these ingredients into a muslin bag _ 7-8 cloves, ½ tspns Pepper Corns crushed; & add to the above mixture. Mix 2 tbspns of Corn flour with ½ cup White Vinegar & also add to the above mixture – mix well & place the vessel on low heat & cook stirring all the time till the thickness is obtained leave to cool Bottle & keep. If you want to preserver the Sauce for a longer period – take ½ cup of the prepared Sauce add ½ tspn of Sodium Benzoate mix well and add this to the rest of the Sauce, now mix nicely – leave to cool – bottle & use.

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