Super simple chilli and tomato sauce

This is quickly becoming my go to sauce for pretty much everything, it works well as a sauce for meat, fish and even on pizza, the base sauce can be spiced up however you want, If you want Mexican flavour add Mexican spices, if you want to add smoked chilli then add smoked chilli, if you want to make it fresh and zingy add fresh chilli and lime, it works with pretty much everything I’ve tried, it’s especially good with smoked paprika then drizzled over pork tenderloin.

If you are vegetarian just switch the chicken stock for vegetable stock. If you want it thicker just add less stock or cook it for a little longer.

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp tomato puree
• 500ml chicken stock
• 1 tsp paprika
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 1 tsp Tabasco.
• 1 tsp olive oil
• salt
• black pepper
• pinch of sugar
• 1 tsp of oregano

Method

1. heat the olive oil in a saucepan then add the tomato purée and heat through
2. stir in the other ingredients apart from the stock
3. now add the stock a splash at a time, stirring well
4. heat and keep stirring, once the sauce is at the consistency you like stop adding the stock,remove from the heat and serve