Michel Guérard's Sauce Vierge
★★★★☆
PREP TIME
2 hours
COOK TIME
30 minutes
MAKES
about 2 cups sauce, or 4 servings
Ingredients
3
large, very ripe tomatoes (about 1 1/2 pounds)
2
whole, peeled garlic cloves, lightly smashed
1/4 cup
roughly chopped fresh herbs (any combination of chives, tarragon, parsley, basil, chervil, basil, cilantro)
1 cup
extra-virgin olive oil (or to taste)
Instructions
- Roughly chop the tomatoes (peel and seed them first if you like, but we prefer not to). Mix with the rest of the ingredients in a large bowl, cover, and leave to sit at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours; alternately, mix the ingredients in a saucepan and simmer the sauce very slowly over low heat for 30 minutes.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning, remove the cloves of garlic, and serve warm or room temperature, over fish, pasta, chicken, or anything else summer throws at you.
