Bases * Raw tomato sauce

Sure, it is advisable to eat the most fresh vegetables and fruits possible to benefit the most out of the the nutrients from food, so, seen that Autumn is a warm season and it is still possible to enjoy simple, quick, high-vitamines recipes. One being the raw tomato sauce, that can be served as a dressing, a starter, a refreshing soup. 
Fresh and red sun ripened home grown tomatoes

Basil

Parsley

Home made extra virgin olive oil

Home made extra virgine olive oil with chilly

Rosemary flavoured salt

Salt

Garlic (just rub on the chopping board)

Wash, chop with a knife and mince in the kitchen robot and later with the masher (or straight in the masher) the tomatoes. On a side prepare a basil and parsley chop on the (possibly wooden) chopping board where the garlic has been slightly rubbed, spice the tomato juice with salt, extra virgin olive oill, and mince. Leave it on a pan for an hour or so, then add some drops of chily extra virgin olive oil. Perfect for a cold pasta, or a warm pasta especially adding some cubes of mozzarella, adding capers and olives, as a refreshing soup, and as a starter with toasted bread.

Variations: in case of intolerance to garlic, instead of basil and parsley, use for the mince other herbs, such as fresh mint, tyme, savory, etc. or a cream of rosemary. Another variation is adding pepper, or chopped avocado, tabasco sauce, and pennyroyal leafs, or freshly picked raw minced zucchini with oregano.

 

Vegan

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