Easy Fat Free Basic Tomato Sauce

This is a basic tomato sauce you can use as it is for pasta or transform with additions, but best of all it's tasty and fat free.  Everyone has different tastes so you may need to adjust to your own taste.

Can be frozen in batches.

Recipe

1  400g tin chopped tomatoes
1 tin of water
500g passata (1 carton)
1 medium onion chopped
1 crushed clove garlic
1 stock cube
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1tbsp tomato puree (optional)
1tsp sugar or artificial sugar
Salt & Pepper to taste
Method

1.Put all the ingredients except for the sugar in to a large pan, bring to the boil and simmer until onion is soft and desired thickness is reached.
2. When cooked add the sugar.  The sugar just takes away from the acidity of the tomatoes and balances the sauce.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Note: If it becomes too thick during the cooking process then just add more water.

Additions added at the beginning of the cooking process

1/2 - 1 teaspoon of chilli powder or to taste
1tsp of dried herbs of your choice.
1 chopped pepper
8 chopped mushrooms
2tbsp Balsamic vinegar.
You can add any vegetable of your choice to the mixture, up to approx 500g.
You could also replace some of the water with your favourite wine for a more luxurious sauce.

Use the basic sauce for the following.

Sweet and sour sauce - add 50ml vinegar and 4 tablespoons of sugar.
Bolognaise sauce just add to lean minced meat or quorn.