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Tomato Sauce Piquante

Tomato Sauce Piquante — a recipe imported from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Total 00:30
Yield 2

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce ham
  • Butter
  • ½ onion
  • ½ carrot
  • ½ stalk celery
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 sprig thyme
  • 1 clove
  • 4 peppercorns
  • ⅓ cup vinegar
  • ½ glass Chablis white wine
  • 1 cup stock
  • 6 tomatoes, cut up and strained of all their liquid
  • Veloute or Espagnole sauce
  • 1 tsp castor sugar
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • 1 ounce butter

Instructions

  1. 1
    Cut up the ham, onion, carrot, and celery very finely. Fry them in butter together with the bay leaf, thyme, clove and peppercorns.
  2. 2
    Over this pour the vinegar, and when the liquid is all absorbed, add the Chablis and stock, then the tomatoes.
  3. 3
    Cook this in a covered stew pan and pass it through a sieve, making sure none of the bay leaf or thyme goes through.
  4. 4
    Mix this sauce with an equal quantity of Veloute sauce (No. 2) or Espagnole sauce, (No. 1), let it boil and pass through a sieve again.
  5. 5
    Add the castor sugar, the lemon juice, and butter.
Category
Side Dishes
Cuisine
Italian

Recipe Attribution