passata??

[kc79]

i have a recipe which requires 1/4 pt of passata.what is it please??

[fine,thanks]

concentrated tomato sauce, available in the supermarkets

[kc79]

thankyou

[herbie]

Passata comes in cartons usually found near tinned tomatos in supermarkets normally flavoured with Basil or Garlic and is quite thick hope this helps

[BBWCHATT]

KC -

This tells you all about it and tells you what you can substitute for it I think:

http://www.ochef.com/603.htm


BBWCHATT
The old lady in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

[chazza]

http://www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/6/xpi59381 696.htm

It can be used in home made pizzas and as others have said, is in the tinned tomatoes aisle

[BBWCHATT]

The link I gave you says:

Finally, we came across two British books A Cook's Guide to Italian Ingredients (Canada, UK) and La Cucina Italiana (Canada, UK) that seemed to agree on a definition for passata: "sieved red tomatoes." Depending on the degree of sieving, the pulp can be perfectly smooth (polpa di pomodoro) or slightly chunky (passata rustica). So passata � at least according to some Brits � is skinned, seedless, unflavored, uncooked tomato pulp, either slightly chunky or smooth.

We buy it all the time in our supermarkets in bottles, cans, or cartons, and it is essentially crushed tomatoes.

If you can't find it in a store on this side of the Atlantic (apparently it's just pouring off the shelves in the UK), you can drain and sieve canned tomatoes to make uncooked passata in any quantity you need. A food mill will work especially well for this.

If you recipe is from a British source, you'll probably be safe with sieved tomatoes. Obviously there is a richness and complexity of flavor in the cooked passata recipe that will be lacking if you use plain sieved tomatoes in other recipes.

In general, don't substitute tomato paste for passata unless the recipe calls for a very small amount, as tomato paste is both too concentrated and too sweet to stand in for large quantities of passata.

[kc79]

thankyou for all your help.
i'm off to asda

[Lindylou]

Puree a couple of cans of tinned tomatoes. 19p each at Aldi's. Add salt, pepper and a slosh of worcester to taste.