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I don't mind using sugar in my recipes but I do look for alternative 100% zero calorie natural sweeteners at times. One thing I won't use is artificial sweeteners. When I am cooking or baking, I don't always want sugar and the added calories, so I look for alternatives.
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I grow a lot of vegetables and have a passion for gardening. One of the things I enjoy making is a rustic pasta sauce from my garden heirloom tomatoes. I have a standard recipe that I follow but don't like adding sugar to my pasta sauces.
Sometimes the tomatoes work fine for sweetness but sometimes I need to add a sweetener. I have been using NECTRESSE™ as my sweetener because it is all natural, zero calorie and maintains a great sweet taste through the entire cooking process of making pasta sauce. I recommend giving it a try in one of your recipes and see if friends and family notice that you used a alternative sweetener to sugar.
Rustic Tomato Sauce Recipe
Step One:
De-seed 8-12 baseball size tomatoes. Remove the seeds and liquid surrounding the seeds. They will not be used in in the sauce. Roughly chop up the remaining tomatoes with the skins and put them in a pot.
Chop 1-2 large onions into medium pieces and put them in the pot.
Mince or press 1-2 cloves of garlic into the pot.
Add 1-2 tablespoons of sea salt into the pot.
Add 1 tablespoon of black pepper into the pot.
Mix the ingredients together and boil them down on medium high to 1/2 to 2/3 contents. You are reducing the ingredients down by evaporating out the liquids.
Step Two:
Stir the contents regularly mashing the larger chunks against the inside of the pot. When the ingredients have boiled down and thickened to your liking add the following ingredients to taste.
1-3 tablespoons of dried oregano
Additional sea salt to taste.
1 tablespoon of NECTRESSE™ sweetener (add additional to taste).
Simmer contents for another 20 minutes.
Step Three:
Add 1 cup of basil as full leaves
Add 2 cups of split cherry tomatoes.
Reduce heat to lowest setting and serve over pasta of your choice.
