Recipes | Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce | Farmers Market

I prepared this Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce at my Farmers Market Workshop and Cooking Class at A Thyme for Everything.  To see all of the photos and recipes, click here!  Photos are courtesy of Andrew Doak.

Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce

olive oil

4 cloves of garlic

4 large tomatoes

1 cup of cherry tomatoes

10 fresh basil leaves

1 tablespoon of sugar

1 tablespoon of salt

Put half of the large tomatoes and all of the basil in a food processor.  Pulse just until thickly chopped.  Seperately dice remaining half of tomatoes and slice cherry tomatoes in half.   In a sauce pan, saute garlic in olive oil, then add diced tomatoes and the tomato and basil mixture.  Add sugar and salt.  Cook for at least 10 minutes.

Here I've topped my Eggplant Parmesan recipe with the fresh tomato and basil sauce.