Sauce Tomat
Escoffier's tomato mother sauce — salt pork, mirepoix and tomatoes cooked down long and slow, thickened without a drop of cream.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1.5 kg ripe tomatoes or tinned plum tomatoes
- 100 g salt pork or pancetta, diced
- 1 pieces onion, diced
- 1 pieces carrot, diced
- 40 g butter
- 30 g plain flour
- 400 ml white stock
- 3 pieces garlic cloves
- 1 pieces bay leaf
- 1 tsp sugar
- to taste salt
- to taste black pepper
Nutrition (estimated)
medium confidenceRecipe total: 1293 kcal · P 37.2g · C 116.5g · F 81.7g
Estimated from 10 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Render the salt pork in the butter over low heat until its fat runs.
- 2Add the onion and carrot and cook 10 minutes until soft and sweet.
- 3Sprinkle over the flour and cook 3 minutes, stirring.
- 4Add the tomatoes, garlic, bay leaf, sugar and stock and bring to a simmer.
- 5Cook uncovered at the barest simmer for 1.5 hours, stirring occasionally so it does not catch.
- 6Pass the sauce through a fine sieve or food mill, pressing the solids hard to extract everything.
- 7Return to the pan, season with salt and pepper and reduce further if it is thinner than you want.
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Questions and answers
How long does Sauce Tomat take to make?
About 120 minutes: 20 min prep and 100 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Sauce Tomat?
12 ingredients: ripe tomatoes or tinned plum tomatoes, salt pork or pancetta, onion, carrot, butter, plain flour, white stock, garlic cloves, bay leaf, sugar, salt, black pepper.
How many servings does this Sauce Tomat recipe make?
8 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Sauce Tomat?
About 162 kcal, with 4.6 g protein, 14.6 g carbohydrate and 10.2 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is Sauce Tomat?
Sauce Tomat comes from French cuisine.
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