Roasted Tomato Sauce

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 lbs Roma tomatoes,

  cut in half
• 5 cloves garlic
• 1 medium yellow onion,

  cut into large chunks
• 1 carrot,

  cut into large chunks
• 1 teaspoon sea salt,

  plus more to taste
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper

  plus more to taste
• 3 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 3-4 basil leaves

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 Line a rimmed baking sheet [https://amzn.to/37M0ZAV?tag=wwwasweetpeac-20]with
  parchment paper or you can use a large casserole dish
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• 3 Lay out the tomato halves (skin-side up), onion, garlic and carrot and sprinkle
  with salt and pepper. Try to make this only one layer to allow for maximum
  roasting. Drizzle olive oil all over.
• 4 Bake for 60 - 75 minutes, or until the edges of the tomatoes and onions begin to
  pull away from the tomato flesh.
• 5 Allow to cool and then remove the peels using your hands.
• 6 Carefully transfer the roasted contents to a food processor
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  or blender
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  (or a large mixing bowl [https://amzn.to/3vxydze?tag=wwwasweetpeac-20], if using
  a stick blender [https://amzn.to/41Gnjn3?tag=wwwasweetpeac-20]), add the basil
  leaves and tomato paste, and pulse until smooth.
• 7 Add additional salt and/or pepper, to taste.

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