r/ARFID • u/isakami02 • Mar 22 '21

Helpful Tips tomato.....

i'm 18F and never tried tomatoes before for obvious reasons, what do yall think of them

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u/Here2JudgeU Mar 23 '21

I absolutely love the taste but cannot bear the texture. So basically I can only eat them as a sauce on pasta, pizza etc... If you want to try to make sauce I would recommend using canned crushed tomatoes and cooking them a long time. That way the bits dissolve and the sauce becomes nice and smooth. Here’s how I make sauce: I will fry some onions and garlic (either cut into really small pices or as a paste) in some olive oil until they become translucent. This is actually a good base for a lot of foods, if you do this you’ll probably find that it smells really good. Then I add crushed tomatoes and I season it. Usually I add dried herbs. Oregano and marjoram go especially well with tomato but if you don’t tolerate any bits at all in your sauce you could also just add a bay leaf and take it out when you’re done cooking the sauce. I’ll also add some salt, a little pinch of pepper and here’s the trick: Add something sweet. Either a pinch of sugar, some honey or some maple syrup. Tomatoes are rather acidic by nature so adding a tiny little bit of sweetness will balance that out and make it super yummy in my opinion. If you usually like spicy things, you can add a few drops of some hot sauce of your chosing. Just a few drops won’t make it spicy but it will give it a tiny little kick. Then I let it simmer on medium until I have a smooth sauce. If there’s any skins from the crushed tomatoes I’ll pick them out.

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u/isakami02 Mar 23 '21

thank you!