If you're in search of a flavorful and versatile culinary creation, look no further than spiced tomato sauce, a delightful symphony of tangy tomatoes, aromatic spices, and zesty herbs. This vibrant sauce, hailing from the kitchens of culinary enthusiasts worldwide, is known for its ability to transform ordinary dishes into extraordinary meals. Whether you're a seasoned chef or just starting your culinary journey, this article aims to guide you through the wonderful world of spiced tomato sauce, providing foolproof recipes and expert tips to create a sauce that will delight your taste buds and leave you craving more.
Here are our top 10 tried and tested recipes!
TANDOORI SPICED CHICKEN BREAST WITH GRILLED TOMATO JAM AND HERBED YOGURT SAUCE
Steps:
- Heat grill to medium-high. Combine all spices and the oil in a medium bowl to make a paste. Rub a thin layer of the spice paste onto 1 side of each chicken breast. Grill for 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until slightly charred and just cooked through. Remove from the grill, let rest 5 minutes, and cut lengthwise into 1/2-inch thick slices. Serve openface on pitas: the chicken slices, a few dollops of Tomato Jam, and a drizzle of Herbed Yogurt.
- Heat grill to high. Brush tomatoes and serrano with oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill tomatoes and serrano on all sides until charred. Remove from the grill and coarsely chop.
- Heat oil in a medium saucepan on the grates of the grill or on the side burners. Add the onion and cook until soft. Add the tomatoes, serrano, balsamic vinegar, and saffron and cook until thickened. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a bowl and let cool to room temperature before serving.
- Place all ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Refrigerate if not using immediately.
ORANGE ROUGHY WITH INDIAN-SPICED TOMATO SAUCE
Categories Fish Tomato Yogurt Wheat/Gluten-Free Spring Bon Appétit
Yield Makes 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Sprinkle fish on both sides with salt and pepper, then with 1 teaspoon garam masala, dividing equally. Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add fish and cook until opaque in center, about 2 1/2 minutes per side. Transfer fish to platter (do not clean skillet).
- Add tomatoes with juices, 2 tablespoons cilantro, and remaining 2 teaspoons garam masala to same skillet. Simmer over medium-low heat until slightly thickened, scraping up any browned bits, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon sauce over fish. Top with yogurt and sprinkle with cilantro.
KEFTA TAJINE (MOROCCAN SPICED MEATBALLS W/ EGGS IN TOMATO SAUCE)
Classic Moroccan Tagine. A tagine is a subtly flavored stew, served over couscous or rice. This one makes a nice dinner served with salad and fresh bread.
Provided by littleturtle
Categories Stew
Time 35m
Yield 35 meatballs, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Use your hands to mix the meatball ingredients, and roll mixture into mini meatballs 3/4"-1" in diameter; set aside.
- In a skillet or tajine combine sauce ingredients and let mixture simmer, covered, over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Add meatballs, squash, and peas to the sauce and simmer, covered, over medium-low heat for 15 minutes.
- Pour the eggs in in a stream over everything.
- Cover and cook just long enough to cook the egg (about 3 minutes, depending on how well done you like your eggs).
- Serve warm over couscous, sprinkled with cumin or black pepper if desired.
LAMB MEATBALLS WITH SPICED TOMATO SAUCE, MINT, AND FETA RECIPE - (4.9/5)
Provided by Chezlamere
Number Of Ingredients 28
Steps:
- First the sauce: pass the tomatoes through a food mill, toast the cumin seeds for a few minutes over medium heat, until they release their aroma and are lightly browned, pound them finely in a mortar. Heat a saucepan over medium high heat for 1 minute then add oil, the rosemary and chile and heat another minute. Add the onion, thyme, cumin, cinnamon and cayenne bay leaf and saute for 5-6 minutes until the onion is translucent. Add the toms, sugar, juice and zest, heaping 1/2 tsp salt and some freshly ground pepper. Cook for 8-10 minutes over medium low heat until reduced by one third. Taste for seasoning The meatballs: first of all, I would NEVER waste my time with lamb, preferring equal amounts freshly ground beef and pork in my kichenaid grinder. That said..... preheat oven to 400 In a large bowl mix together onions, cream, yolks, cinnamon, cumin, aleppo pepper and cayenne. Place the lamb in the bowl and season evenly with 2 1/2 tsp salt and lots of pepper. Add the breadcrumbs (this is where you can make it gluten free) and parsley. Combine the mixture well. Shape the balls into 1 1/2 oz balls, or use a cookie scoop and roll the contents after scooping out all the mixture into little piles. Pour the tomato sauce into a large oven to table baking dish Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper and place the balls on it, spacing evenly after rolling them into balls. Turn the meatballs over during cooking. Watch the process as you don't want to overcook them as they will continue cooking in the sauce. When you suspect they are done, cut one in half and inspect for any lingering red colored uncooked meat. Once they are done remove tray from oven and warm up sauce on stovetop. Once the sauce has come to a slow boil, add the meatballs gently to the sauce coating all the meatballs, then bake in the oven for about 20 minutes I usually have a bag in the freezer of pureed leeks, or a roasted baby yam in the fridge. I have been known to add about 1/2 of pureed leek and one baby yam to the meat mixture. Meatballs are a great way to hide veg on the grandchildren. Don't be tempted to add butternut squash or any other squash, it's to squashyyyy tasting. Just the yam or/and pureed leek before serving add the crumbled feta and mint over the dish.
SPICED TOMATO SAUCE
Steps:
- Cook onion, garlic, ginger, and spices in oil in a 1- to 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderately low heat, stirring, until onion is softened, about 4 minutes. Stir in vinegar and simmer over moderately low heat 1 minute. Add tomatoes (with juice) and brown sugar, then increase heat to moderate and simmer, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 30 minutes. Cool slightly, about 5 minutes.
- Purée sauce in a blender until smooth (use caution when blending hot liquids). Serve at room temperature.
CHICKEN WITH SPICED TOMATO SAUCE
Provided by Marian Burros
Categories dinner, one pot, main course
Time 40m
Yield 2 servings
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Chop whole onion. In a nonstick pan large enough to hold all the ingredients, saute the onion in hot oil until it is soft.
- Mince garlic and add to onions.
- Wash and dry chicken and cut into bite-size chunks. When onion is soft, add chicken and brown lightly on both sides.
- Tie the pickling spice in a little bit of cheesecloth or an emptied tea bag. Add it to the chicken with the stock, vinegar, tomato paste and black pepper. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until chicken is cooked and flavors are melded, about 7 to 10 minutes. If sauce begins to stick, add a little more stock. Remove pickling-spice bag, and serve the chicken over rice.
SHRIMP IN SPICED TOMATO SAUCE
This sauce gets a nice kick from ginger and coriander for a light meal that's short on calories but heavy on flavor.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Seafood Recipes Shrimp Recipes
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- In a medium saucepan, heat oil over medium. Add onion and ginger; cook until onion is softened, about 3 minutes. Add coriander, cayenne, and lemon zest; cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Add tomatoes, breaking them up as you go. Bring mixture to a boil; reduce to a simmer and cook 10 minutes. Season tomato sauce with salt and pepper and let cool to room temperature.
- Place shrimp in a 1-gallon freezer bag and pour cooled tomato sauce on top. Press out air, seal bag, and freeze flat. Store in the freezer, up to 2 1/2 months.
- To serve, thaw shrimp mixture in refrigerator overnight. Transfer to a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium-high; cook until sauce is hot and shrimp are opaque throughout, about 3 minutes. Serve sprinkled with cilantro, with couscous alongside if desired.
LAMB MEATBALLS WITH SPICED TOMATO SAUCE
Categories Lamb
Number Of Ingredients 30
Steps:
- Preheat broiler. In a large bowl, mix together the onion, cream, egg yolks, cinnamon, cumin, red pepper and cayenne. Put the lamb in the bowl, and season it aggressively with salt and pepper. Add the bread crumbs and parsley, and combine the mixture well. Shape the meat into balls that are a little larger than golf balls. 2. Grease a baking pan with olive oil, and put the meatballs onto it, spaced evenly. Place beneath the broiler, and cook, turning once or twice, until the meatballs are well browned, approximately 5 to 7 minutes, then set meatballs aside. Turn oven to 400. 3. Meanwhile, make the sauce. Pass the tomatoes through a food mill, or whizz them quickly in a food processor. Heat a saucepan over medium-high heat for a minute, then add olive oil, rosemary and red pepper and shake to combine. Cook for another minute, then add onion, thyme, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne and bay leaf and sauté until the onions are translucent, approximately 5 to 7 minutes. Add tomatoes, sugar, orange juice and peel, along with salt and pepper. 4. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes over medium-low heat, until reduced by a third. Adjust seasoning. 5. Pour the tomato sauce into a large baking dish that you can put on the table. Transfer the meatballs to the sauce, putting them about ½ inch from each other. Bake for 15 or 20 minutes, until the sauce is bubbling and the meatballs are cooked through. 6. Top with crumbled feta and scattered mint.
SPICED ZUCCHINI AND PEAS IN TOMATO SAUCE
Steps:
- 1. Saute onions, garlic and celery in oil for 2 minutes.
- 2. Add turmeric, cumin and zucchini.
- 3. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.
- 4. Add tomato sauce, peas and cayenne pepper and cook until zucchini is tender, about 15 minutes.
- 5. HINT: Use chopped fresh or canned tomatoes instead of tomato sauce.
LAMB MEATBALLS WITH SPICED TOMATO SAUCE
Here is a recipe from the Los Angeles chef Suzanne Goin that plays to children as well as to the most sophisticated of palates. It is for crisp lamb meatballs cooked through in a fragrant, vaguely North African sauce of tomato sauce zipped up with orange juice and warm spices, then topped with feta and mint. Ms. Goin first served the dish at one of her Los Angeles restaurants, and put it into ''The A.O.C. Cookbook'' (2013), devoted to that restaurant's food. A version of the dish was later introduced to the menu of her children's school. It can be cooked in an hour's time, not all of it busy, and served with pita or plain pasta, bulgur or couscous.
Provided by Sam Sifton
Categories brunch, dinner, lunch, weekday, sauces and gravies, appetizer, main course
Time 1h
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 27
Steps:
- Preheat broiler. In a large bowl, mix together the onion, cream, egg yolks, cinnamon, cumin, red pepper and cayenne. Put the lamb in the bowl, and season it aggressively with salt and pepper. Add the bread crumbs and parsley, and combine the mixture well. Shape the meat into balls that are a little larger than golf balls.
- Grease a baking pan with olive oil, and put the meatballs onto it, spaced evenly. Place beneath the broiler, and cook, turning once or twice, until the meatballs are well browned, approximately 5 to 7 minutes, then set meatballs aside. Turn oven to 400.
- Meanwhile, make the sauce. Pass the tomatoes through a food mill, or whizz them quickly in a food processor. Heat a saucepan over medium-high heat for a minute, then add olive oil, rosemary and red pepper and shake to combine. Cook for another minute, then add onion, thyme, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne and bay leaf and sauté until the onions are translucent, approximately 5 to 7 minutes. Add tomatoes, sugar, orange juice and peel, along with salt and pepper.
- Cook for 8 to 10 minutes over medium-low heat, until reduced by a third. Adjust seasoning.
- Pour the tomato sauce into a large baking dish that you can put on the table. Transfer the meatballs to the sauce, putting them about ½ inch from each other. Bake for 15 or 20 minutes, until the sauce is bubbling and the meatballs are cooked through.
- Top with crumbled feta and scattered mint.
Tips:
- Select ripe tomatoes: Use fresh, ripe tomatoes for the best flavor. Look for tomatoes that are deep red and free of blemishes.
- Roast the tomatoes: Roasting the tomatoes intensifies their flavor and sweetness. You can roast them whole or halved.
- Use a variety of spices: The spices used in this recipe are just a suggestion. Feel free to experiment with other spices that you like, such as cumin, coriander, or paprika.
- Simmer the sauce: Simmering the sauce allows the flavors to meld and develop. Be patient and let the sauce simmer for at least 30 minutes.
- Adjust the consistency: The consistency of the sauce can be adjusted by adding more or less liquid. If you want a thicker sauce, simmer it for longer. If you want a thinner sauce, add more liquid, such as water or chicken broth.
Conclusion:
This spiced tomato sauce is a delicious and versatile sauce that can be used in a variety of dishes. It is perfect for pasta, pizza, chicken, or fish. The roasted tomatoes give the sauce a rich and smoky flavor, while the spices add a warm and inviting aroma. This sauce is sure to please everyone at your table.
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