Sauce de Tomates Crues (Raw Tomato Sauce) is a traditional Beninese recipe for a classic sauce made with pureed tomatoes and chillies mixed with fried onions that's typically served with rice. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Beninese version of: Raw Tomato Sauce (Sauce de Tomates Crues).
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Ingredients:
8 large, ripe, tomatoes
2 onions, finely chopped
powdered ginger, salt and black pepper, to taste
2 tbsp oil
3 Scotch Bonnet chillies
Method:
Roughly slice the tomatoes and chillies (piment). Add the chillies to a pestle and mortar and pound to a paste. Then add the tomatoes and pound those in to form as smooth a paste as you can.
Meanwhile fry the onions in the oil until soft and transparent. Stir-in the tomato and chilli paste and simmer until just warmed through. Season with the ginger, salt and black pepper and serve on a bed of rice.