Tomato Cream Sauce

Plan Z Phase: this is a Z2 (ZReduction) recipe and a Z3 (ZReboot) recipe.

Servings: Serves approximately 6 with leftovers.

This sauce is so versatile. Serve over cooked chicken breast (or tenderloins) or fish of any kind. Even use it as a pool of sauce with broiled scallops on top. This can be comfort food or fancy dinner party food depending on how you serve it or what you serve with it.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of onion, diced
• Spray of olive oil
• 3 tsp of minced garlic (jar garlic will do)
• 1 15 oz can of diced tomatoes. I used Hunts fire roasted with garlic. You choose.
• 1/3 cup of tomato sauce
• 1/3 cup of chopped, fresh basil. (Remove stems. Chop leaves only)
• Grated sea salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp of pepper
• 1 cup of heavy cream

For Z3

• You can optionally add 1/3 cup of grated Parmesan to the sauce at the end and even sprinkle more on the finished dish before serving.

Instructions:

Cook your protein to your liking. I suggest chicken, fish or seafood.  You will need 6 portions.

While the protein cooks you can work on your sauce. It’s easy and quick.

In a medium saucepan, spray olive oil and cook onion on medium until wilted; just a few minutes. Add garlic, tomatoes, tomato sauce, basil, salt and pepper. Cook on medium for approximately 10 minutes on medium. You want it to bubble down and reduce a bit. Stir every few minutes.

Then add the cream and turn off the heat. Stir. You don’t want to boil the sauce with the cream in it. Just leave it for 5 – 10 minutes so the cream gets good and warm.

Place your protein on the plate and cover with sauce.

Portion for Z2 is two heaping tablespoons of sauce. When you are scooping it out of the saucepan with a tablespoon, try to get an assortment of the ingredients in each scoop. This is half of your cream allotment for the day. You will have very few tomatoes so you almost have your entire allotment of vegetables still available. Consider a side of veggies to go with this and, of course, you can have a plain salad.

Enjoy!

Cheers,