Red main sauce

Sauces make variety in any kitchen, add spiciness, help to give food a completely different taste. The red sauce itself is not a dish, but the recipe for a properly selected sauce can improve and even "fix" the taste of a failed meal. And for some dishes, sauce is an indispensable ingredient.

How to cook red sauce?

The recipe for red sauce is based on tomato and one mandatory condition - the toasting of flour. Flour is a thickener, if it is not fried, the sauce will have an unpleasant taste, and its consistency will turn out to be viscous.

The recipe for a red sauce

Red main sauce is an excellent basis for making other sauces - with onions, mushrooms, wine, vinegar and other spices. You can experiment with tastes, look for that rare ingredient that will give your recipe for a red sauce a special piquancy.

Ingredients:

• onion - 1 pc .;
• carrots - 1 piece;
• parsley root - 30 g;
• wheat flour - 40 g;
• broth - 500 ml;
• butter - 20 g;
• tomato paste - 30 g;
• salt, sugar, pepper - to taste.

Preparation

Heat the frying pan on the fire, pour in the flour and fry it until golden brown. Then leave the frying pan to one side and allow the ingredient to cool. Pour the broth into the flour with a thin trickle and stir well so that there are no lumps. Cut finely onions, carrots, parsley root and pass on the heated oil in a frying pan. Add the tomato paste, bring to a boil. After this, pour broth, diluted with flour, mix and once again bring to a boil with the lid closed. On a small fire cook for about 10 minutes. At the end of the preparation of the red sauce add salt, pepper, sugar. Finished the sauce to drain, from the vegetable mass with a blender to make a mash. Mix everything and bring it to a boil again. The sauce is ready, now it needs to be cooled and can be served to the table.

Red meat sauce

If you want to serve red meat sauce, cook it on a meat broth and add 1-2 tablespoons of port and the same butter to the pan at the end of the cooking.

Red sauce for fish

To emphasize the taste of fish dishes, prepare the red main sauce on the fish broth, add to the vegetables 2-3 chopped marinated cucumbers, 5-6 olives and a slice of lemon.

Whatever recipe of red sauce you choose, be sure that your dish will play with new colors and pleasantly surprise the guests!