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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.

00:03I'm going to show you how to make a tomato sauce using fresh tomatoes and tomato passato.

00:11So first of all, we're going to add some olive oil and some garlic.

00:14So when you get garlic, it's always good to squeeze the garlic to see how fresh it is.

00:18Now, if the garlic's very, very firm, that means it's very, very fresh.

00:21Sometimes you can pick up garlic bulbs and they almost crack and they're soft inside.

00:25That means the garlic's old, so it'll have a very unpleasant taste.

00:28This is lovely fresh garlic, so it's nice and firm.

00:31So we just get a couple of cloves of garlic.

00:33Now, Italian food, they don't use that much garlic.

00:35It's always a bit of a myth that, you know, all this Mediterranean food has lots of garlic.

00:40It does have some, but not masses.

00:42So it's important to get just the right quantity, otherwise it's just going to be too strong.

00:46So we're just going to peel the garlic clove and then we're going to slice it very, very thinly.

00:51Okay, I'm just going to cut down the middle and then make sure there's no sprout in the middle.

00:56There is a little bit of a sprout, so we'll take that out.

00:59And then just slice the garlic.

01:01We'll do one clove, probably enough.

01:03And then we'll just slice the garlic nice and thinly.

01:07You can do this on a slicer, on a mandolin if you've got a small truffle mandolin,

01:12or just best thing is a small knife like this, a small paring knife.

01:16So nice thin slices of garlic.

01:18Then we're going to add some good olive oil.

01:20So nice flavoursome olive oil.

01:22If you use a cheap olive oil, it won't have that same flavour.

01:25Obviously you don't use the best oil you've got, but a nice extra virgin olive oil is great.

01:30So a good two to three tablespoons of olive oil.

01:34Sounds like a lot, but it's basically the oil is part of the sauce.

01:37It's not just the cooking medium.

01:39So we put the garlic in and then we're just going to soften the garlic.

01:42We don't want to get any colour.

01:43Don't put any colour on the garlic.

01:44Because if you add colour to the garlic, what's going to happen is you're going to have this sort of nutty brown taste.

01:49And everything will taste of this sort of slightly overcooked garlic, which is not very nice.

01:54Just let that soften.

01:55It takes about less than a minute.

01:57Then get some basil leaves.

01:59Now I'm going to use some fresh at the end and some now.

02:01And the thing is to get that oil tasting really nice.

02:04So I'm just going to rip up the bits of basil.

02:07I always think basil is so much nicer ripped up than chopped up or shredded.

02:10It just tastes better when it's just sort of ripped.

02:13And then just fry that basil and the garlic together.

02:17And then at this stage I'm just going to take the pan off.

02:20So the garlic and the basil infuses.

02:22And then I'm going to get some tomatoes.

02:24So these are just vine tomatoes.

02:26And we're just going to take out the core of the tomato.

02:29And you're just going to cut them in half.

02:31And we're going to pop them into this food blender.

02:33The skins have got masses of flavour.

02:35I'm just going to pop this in at a very high speed.

02:37It's just going to turn all this tomato into a pulp.

02:39And so you're going to get all that flavour from the skin as well.

02:41So rather than blanching tomatoes and peeling them.

02:44You can actually just go straight into the machine.

02:46And make a tomato paste almost.

02:49But try and get as ripe tomatoes as possible.

02:51The riper the better.

02:53And then pop that in.

02:55Turn it on.

02:56And it seems very, very wet.

03:09But that's fine.

03:10Because we're going to reduce it down.

03:12And then we're just going to turn the heat up a bit.

03:14Once it comes back up to heat.

03:16We'll add the chopped tomato.

03:18Just as simple as that.

03:19And then we'll just give a little stir.

03:20So all those ingredients combine.

03:22And we're just going to leave that to reduce.

03:24Just for like one minute.

03:26And then we get a jar of tomato passata.

03:29And then just pop that in.

03:30In it goes.

03:31So that's one whole jar.

03:33And then we're just going to give that a stir.

03:35And we're going to cook this slowly.

03:37For about 20 minutes.

03:39That whole quantity.

03:40The fresh tomato and the tomato passata.

03:42Reduces by half.

03:43And it'll give you a really lovely sweet tasting tomato sauce.

03:47Now turn the heat down a bit.

03:49And just let it simmer gently.

03:51For 20 minutes.

03:53So the tomato sauce is reduced by half.

03:56And it's got.

03:57They've become much thicker.

03:58And the only problem with making tomato sauce.

04:00Is it does splash everywhere.

04:01And I've managed to keep myself clean.

04:03Which is unusual.

04:04It's important that the sauce has got a nice.

04:06Sort of thickness to it.

04:07Without being too thick.

04:09Now the more you cook it.

04:10The sweeter it becomes.

04:11And the more intense the flavour.

04:12But this sort of consistency.

04:14Is just perfect.

04:15For some.

04:16Cooking it with some fresh pasta.

04:18Just get the.

04:19Basil.

04:20And just rip the basil in.

04:21And then we're going to add some.

04:22A little dash of.

04:23Nice.

04:24Olive oil.

04:25Again.

04:26So good.

04:27Dash of olive oil.

04:28Black pepper.

04:30And then.

04:33A little bit of salt.

04:34Just taste it.

04:35A little bit of salt.

04:37And then just.

04:38Give that.

04:39Nice.

04:40A little bit of olive oil.

04:41And.

04:42A little bit of olive oil.

04:43And.

04:44A little bit of olive oil.

04:45And so all that lovely oil.

04:46And the tomatoes.

04:47The garlic.

04:48And the basil.

04:49Is all nicely.

04:50Mixed together.

04:51And that is ready.

04:52To add to some delicious pasta.

04:53Just cook some.

04:54Talitelli.

04:55And toss the tomato sauce.

04:56With the talitelli.

04:57And then we're just going to.

04:59Check the seasoning.

05:00A bit of pepper.

05:03A little bit of salt.

05:06And a nice stash of olive oil.

05:09And just give that.

05:12Little.

05:13Toss all the pastas.

05:14Combined with the sauce.

05:16And just put.

05:17Very beautiful.

05:18Simple.

05:19Talitelli.

05:20A little bit more of that sauce.

05:21On top.

05:22And just finish with a few.

05:23Fresh leaves of basil.

05:24A bit more black pepper.

05:25And a drizzle.

05:26And really good olive oil.

05:27And there you have a delicious.

05:28Talitelli with fresh tomato sauce.

05:29And a little bit.

05:30One more that sauce.

05:31And a little bit of hot sauce.

05:32And you have a little bit.

05:33One more of that sauce on top.

05:34And just finish with a few.

05:35Fresh leaves of basil.

05:36A bit more black pepper.

05:38And a drizzle.

05:39And a little bit.

05:40And a drizzle.

05:41And a really good olive oil.

05:42And there you have a delicious talitelli.

05:43With fresh tomato sauce.

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