{"id":357,"date":"2007-09-03T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/roast-sieved-tomatoes-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:45:06","slug":"roast-sieved-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/2007\/09\/roast-sieved-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Roast Sieved Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this recipe in Guardian Weekend. It was quite easy to make and it was a great base for a pasta sauce. Only problem is that you need to buy and carry home a lot of tomatoes. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>Two kilos of tomatoes fill up two oven trays so if you want to do more than 1 litre you need more trays.<br \/>Don&#8217;t worry if the sauce looks to watery, it is easy to reduce in the pan.<\/p>\n<p><b>Roast sieved tomatoes <\/b>Here&#8217;s the basic procedure, but do vary the amounts of garlic and herbs to suit your own taste. Makes about a litre.<b>At least 2kg ripe, full-flavoured tomatoes &#8211; use different varieties and a mixture of sizes, all cut in half<\/b><b>2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped<\/b><b>2 tbsp olive oil<\/b><b>Salt and freshly ground black pepper<\/b><b>A few sprigs fresh thyme and marjoram (optional, but preferable)<\/b>Preheat the oven to 180C\/350F\/gas mark 4. Arrange the tomato halves &#8211; tightly packed but not on top of each other &#8211; in an ovenproof dish. Mix the garlic with the oil and trickle evenly over the tomatoes. Season lightly with salt and pepper, and throw in the herbs, if using.Roast for 45-60 minutes, until the tomatoes are soft, pulpy and slightly charred. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve, discard the skins and seeds, and that&#8217;s it &#8211; your sauce is ready to use.<br \/>From this <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk\/foodanddrink\/hughfearnleywhittingstall\/story\/0,,2150018,00.html\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this recipe in Guardian Weekend. It was quite easy to make and it was a great base for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,223],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mains","category-pasta-mains","tag-pasta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}