The No Tomato Sauce
Created by Cheesehead on November 13, 2011
- Servings: 4
- Prep Time: 10m
- Cook Time: 10m
- Recipe #2517
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups carrots well steamed
- 1/3 cup beets steamed or roasted
- 2/3 cup water
- 3/4 cup chopped onion (1 medium sized onion) sauteed in olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic sauteed in olive oil briefly just to bring up the flavor
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt, to taste
- 1 teaspoon basil, to taste
- Additional spices (that you like in your sauce such as oregano)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (optional)
How to Make
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Step 1: Steam the carrots and beets until tender (or roast). Brown the onions and briefly at the end, the garlic with olive oil.
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Step 2: In a blender mix the carrots, onions, garlic and water (and lemon juice if you are using it). Add the beets carefully as you do not want too much, just enough to have the rich red color of tomato sauce . Blend until it is very smooth .
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Step 3: Add the spices and blend. Taste and add more spices if need be, or beets for color (small amounts at a time). This recipe tastes better after one day.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (165.6 g)
- Calories 61.6
- Total Fat - 1.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.3 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 81.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 12.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.1 g
- Sugars - 5.8 g
- Protein - 1.4 g
- Calcium - 43.1 mg
- Iron - 0.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 8.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg