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Fresh tomato pasta sauce is made from just four ingredients - and is absolutely delicious. This simple recipe is from celebrity chef and Italian cooking expert Theo Randall.

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00:00Hello my name is Theo Randall from Theo Randall at the Intercontinental and I'm going to show

00:03you how to make a tomato sauce using fresh tomatoes and tomato passata.

00:11So first of all we're going to add some olive oil and some garlic. So when you get garlic it's always

00:15good to squeeze the garlic to see how fresh it is. Now if the garlic's very very firm that means

00:20it's very very fresh. Sometimes you can pick up garlic bulbs and they almost crack and they're

00:25soft inside that means the garlic's old so it'll have a very unpleasant taste. This is lovely fresh

00:29garlic so it's nice and firm. So we just get a couple of cloves of garlic. Now Italian food they

00:34don't use that much garlic it's always it's a bit of a myth that you know all this Mediterranean

00:39food has lots of garlic. It does have some but not masses so it's important to get just the right

00:44quantity otherwise it's just going to be too strong. So we're just going to peel the garlic

00:49clove and I'm going to slice it very very thinly. Okay I'm just going to cut down the middle and

00:54then make sure there's no sprout in the middle. There is a little bit of a sprout so we'll take

00:57that out and then just slice the garlic. We'll do one clove probably enough and then we'll just

01:04slice the garlic nice and thinly. You can do this on a on a on a slicer on a mandolin if you've got

01:10a small truffle mandolin or just best thing is a small knife like this a small paring knife. So nice

01:17thin slices of garlic then we're going to add some good olive oil. So nice flavour some olive oil.

01:22If you use a cheap olive oil it won't have that same flavour. Obviously you don't use the best

01:26oil you've got but a nice extra virgin olive oil is great. So a good two to three tablespoons of

01:33olive oil. Sounds like a lot but it's basically the oil is part of the sauce. It's not just the

01:38cooking medium. So we put the garlic in and then we're just going to soften the garlic. We don't

01:42want to get any colour. Don't put any colour on the garlic because if you add colour to the garlic

01:46what's going to happen is going to have this sort of nutty brown taste and everything will taste

01:50of this sort of slightly overcooked garlic which is not very nice. Just let that soften. It takes

01:55about less than a minute. Then get some basil leaves. Now I'm going to use some fresh at the end and some

02:00now and the thing is to get that oil tasting really nice. So I'm just going to rip up the bits of basil.

02:06I always think basil is so much nicer ripped up than chopped up shredded. It's just got

02:10just tastes better when it's just sort of ripped. And then just fry that basil and the garlic

02:16together and then at this stage I'm just going to take the pan off so the garlic and the basil infuses

02:22and then I'm going to get some tomatoes. So these are just vine tomatoes and we're just going to

02:26take out the core of the tomato and you're just going to cut them in half and we're going to pop

02:31them into this food blender. The skins have got masses of flavour. I'm just going to pop this in at a very

02:36high speed. It's just going to turn all this tomato into a pulp and so you get all that flavour from

02:40the skin as well. So rather than blanching tomatoes and peeling them you can actually just go straight

02:45into the machine and make a tomato paste almost but trying to get as ripe tomatoes as possible.

02:51The riper the better. And then pop that in, turn it on.

03:08And it seems very very wet but that's fine because we're going to reduce it down

03:12and then we're just going to turn the heat up a bit. Once it comes back up to heat we'll add the

03:17chopped tomato just as simple as that and then just give a little stir so all those ingredients

03:21combine and we're just going to leave that to reduce just for like one minute and then we get

03:27a jar of tomato passata and then just pop that in. In it goes. So that's one whole jar and then

03:34we're just going to give that a stir. I'm going to cook this slowly for about 20 minutes. That whole

03:39quantity the fresh tomato and the tomato passata reduces by half and it'll give you a really lovely

03:45sweet tasting tomato sauce. So turn the heat down a bit and just let it simmer gently for 20 minutes.

03:53So the tomato sauce has reduced by half and it's become much thicker. The only problem

03:58making tomato sauce is it does splash everywhere and I've managed to keep myself clean which is

04:02unusual. It's important that the sauce has got a nice sort of thickness to it without being too

04:08thick. Now the more you cook it the sweeter it becomes and the more intense the flavour

04:12but this sort of consistency is just perfect for cooking it with some fresh pasta. Just get the

04:19basil and just rip the basil in and then we're going to add a little dash of

04:23nice olive oil again. So a good dash of olive oil, black pepper

04:32and then a little bit of salt. Just taste it and say a little bit of salt

04:36and then just give that a nice stir. So all that lovely oil and the tomatoes, the garlic and the

04:43basil is all nicely mixed together and that is ready to add to some delicious pasta.

04:52Okay so I've just cooked some tagliatelle and tossed the tomato sauce

04:56with the tagliatelle and then we're just going to check the seasoning.

05:00A bit of pepper, a little bit of salt and a nice dash of olive oil

05:11and just give that a little toss. All the pasta is combined with the sauce

05:17and just put a very beautiful simple tagliatelle.

05:23A little bit more of that sauce on top and just finish with a few fresh leaves of basil,

05:36a bit more black pepper

05:39and a drizzle of really good olive oil.

05:42There you have a delicious tagliatelle with fresh tomato sauce.

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