Tomato Basil Water Recipes

TOMATO-BASIL WATER

Steps:

• Place 1 diced ripe beefsteak tomato (about 10 ounces) and 3 sprigs basil (lightly crushed) in a pitcher. For still infused water, add 2 quarts of water. For sparkling water, add 1 quart of seltzer during prep and a second quart just before serving. Refrigerate 2 to 4 hours to allow the ingredients to infuse. Stir well and strain, discarding the solids. For serving, add diced tomato and basil sprigs for garnish and plenty of ice. The infused water will keep refrigerated for up to 2 days.

TOMATO BASIL SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium-low heat; cook and stir onion, carrots, celery, and garlic until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in both amounts of tomato sauce, chicken broth, basil, and oregano. Increase heat to medium and simmer until soup is reduced, 10 to 20 minutes.
• Pour soup into a blender no more than half full. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Add cream. Continue to puree in batches until smooth, transferring creamy soup to another pot.
• Heat soup over medium-high heat until hot, about 5 minutes more.

FRESH TOMATO BASIL SAUCE

Steps:

• In large saucepan, cook tomatoes and basil over medium-low heat until tomatoes are soft.
• Meanwhile, in medium skillet, saute onion and garlic in olive oil until onions are translucent.
• Add onion mixture to tomato mixture and add salt and pepper. Let simmer on low heat for 2 hours or until thick.

TOMATO AND BASIL FLOUNDER

Steps:

• Coat a large saute pan with oil.
• Saute, over medium heat, onion and garlic until onions are translucent. Add peppers. Cook approx. 2 minutes. Then add tomatoes and 1/4 cup water. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Add oregano and basil. Cook for approximately 10 minutes, contents should be juicy. Add asparagus. Cook another 5 minutes.
• Rinse fish in cold water. Season with a pinch of salt, black pepper, oregano, and garlic powder. Separate ingredients in saute pan. Push all solid ingredients to one side. Gently lay fish in hot liquid, try not to let fillets overlap. Cover. Cook 5 to 10 minutes depending on thickness of fillets.
• When fillets become a milky white, they are done. Garnish with parsley.

BASIC TOMATO-BASIL SAUCE

Steps:

• Wash tomatoes.
• Dip each tomato in boiling water 30 to 60 seconds or until skins split.
• Plunge immediately into ice water; core, peel, and quarter tomatoes.
• Place 4 cups of tomatoes in a large stockpot; crush tomatoes.
• Quickly bring to a boil over high heat, stirring vigorously; gradually add remaining quartered tomatoes, stirring constantly.
• Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 2 hours.
• Remove from heat; stir in basil.
• Add 1 tbls.
• lemon juice and 1/2 tsp.
• salt to each pint jar.
• Immediately pack hot tomatoes into hot jars, filling to 1/2 inch from top.
• Carefully run a nonmetallic spatula around inside of jars to remove air bubbles; wipe jar rims.
• Cover at once with metal lids, and screw on bands.
• Process in boiling-water bath 35 minutes.
• Yield: 6 pints.

TOMATO WATER

Steps:

• Rinse tomatoes well under running water and quarter. In a food processor purée tomatoes with salt until smooth. Line a large sieve set over a tall nonreactive kettle with cheesecloth and carefully pour tomato purée into center of cheesecloth. Gather sides of cheesecloth up over purée to form a large sack and, without squeezing purée, gently gather together upper thirds of cheesecloth to form a neck. Carefully tie neck securely with kitchen string. Tie sack to a wooden spoon longer than diameter of kettle and remove sieve. Put spoon across top of kettle, suspending sack inside kettle and leaving enough room underneath sack so that it will not sit in tomato water that accumulates. Let sack hang in refrigerator at least 8 hours.
• Without squeezing sack, discard it and its contents and transfer tomato water to a bowl. Tomato water keeps, covered and chilled, 4 days.

TOMATO BASIL BREAD

Steps:

• add all ingredients to bread machine.
• select basic bread setting.
• check dough after 5 minutes, add 1-2 tsp of water if needed.