Vegetable Sauce

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 medium tomatoes
• 1 onion
• 2 carrots (peeled)
• 1 red bell pepper
• 8 ounces tomato sauce
• 1 tablespoon sun-dried tomatoes or 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 3 stalks celery
• 2 stalks green onions or 2 stalks scallions
• 1 teaspoon basil (minced)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 teaspoon minced garlic clove
• 4 bay leaves
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon red chili pepper (berbere)
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• salt and black pepper

Recipe

• 1 clean, rinse and chop the vegetables.
• 2 in a big cooking pan, mix all ingredients together except salt and black.
• 3 cook it for 15 minutes.
• 4 add black pepper and salt to taste; cook for five minutes; remove from heat.
• 5 p.s. the sauce could be used with rice; for garnishing baked fish or meat and as a dipping sauce.