TOMATO-LESS TOMATO SAUCE

This post probably won’t appeal to you unless you avoid eating tomatoes.  Who the heck wouldn’t eat tomatoes?!  Well, anyone with blood type B who follows the Blood Type Diet, or maybe someone who has an issue with tomatoes & their stomach.  Or maybe you like the idea of a sauce made of two highly nutritious vegetables instead of one that tastes almost the same.  

Tonight I finally tried out tomato-less tomato sauce.  I used a recipe posted on dadamo.com & one posted by a great cook, Donna Blankenship, as a basis for my sauce.  I was very skeptical that carrots & beets could pass for tomato sauce, but I am now convinced!  I made my sauce from scratch, but you can easily save time by using canned carrots &/or beets.  The sauce will freeze well, so I made a double batch.

INGREDIENTS

Yield = 6 cups (2quarts)

6-8 (~ 5cups sliced)	Large carrots, sliced & steamed (or 4 cans, drained)
1 (~ 1cup sliced)	Tennis-ball sized beet, roasted, steamed, or boiled, then sliced (or 1 cup from a can)
1	Onion, diced
2-4	Garlic cloves, minced
Handful	Fresh oregano (or 1 tsp dried)
½ tsp	Dried basil
½ tsp	Dried sage
2 tsp	Salt
To taste	Garlic powder
½	Lemon, juiced
1 1/3 cup	water

PREPARATION

1.  Steam the carrots & roast (wrapped in foil, @ 350 degrees for a hour), boil, or steam the beets.  If you choose to use canned beets & carrots, open the cans & drain the veggies.

2.  Blend the cooked carrots & beets until smooth. 

3.  Sauté the onion & garlic in a little olive oil, then add to the puree blend in.

4.  Add the oregano, basil, sage, salt, & lemon juice, & blend.  Adjust the seasoning to your taste.   

5.  Transfer the mix to a larger container, then add water (if you are using a blender, just add water into the blender.  I used a food processor & didn’t want a flood in my kitchen!).  If you are freezing any of the sauce, make sure to leave an inch of space in the container for the sauce to expand as if freezes.   

Enjoy!

SUGGESTIONS

Use as spaghetti sauce

Use as pizza sauce

Omit the basil, & use in chili recipes 

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