Persian Tomato Sauce for Lamb
This is a delicious chunky style sauce that is perfect with lamb,but don’t stop there, use as a unique pizza sauce with sliced lamb or as a divine vegetarian dish with chickpeas.
Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 45 minutes mins
Course dinner
Cuisine European
1 Frying pan
1 wooden spoon
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 garlic clove chopped
- 2 Tbsp Persian Rub
- 1 Tbsp tomato paste
- Zest of a lemon finely chopped
- 1 400 g tin whole peeled tomatoes
- 2 Tbsp chopped parsley
- 30 g butter
Fry onions and garlic slowly in butter until translucent.
Add the Persian Rub fry for half a minute then stir in the tomato paste.
Add the lemon zest and tomatoes and cook another five minutes.
Break the tomatoes up with a wooden spoon, but keep the sauce chunky.
Add half the parsley just before serving and use the remainder to garnish.
Serve with roast lamb, rack of lamb or lamb fillets on couscous.
Keyword dinner, lamb, tomato paste, tomato sauce