Loyd Grossman Tomato and Basil Cooking Sauce, 350 g Jar (Pack of 1)

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This was one of the few sauces that specify to add meat, which given the time that takes, you might as well add a tin of chopped tomatoes instead. It tastes cloying with no complexity or depth, bar a hint of musty herb flavour. You can do so much better at the price. Heat the oil in a medium heavy based pan over a medium to high heat. Season the beef medallions and carefully add them to the pan, sealing all over and cooking until cooked to the desired amount. Remove them from the pan and set aside to rest. Add a little more oil if required to the pan, then add the shallots. Cook for a couple of minutes, add the wine and the thyme leaves. Increase the heat to reduce the wine to a couple of tablespoons, add the sauce and the parsley. Heat through and serve over the beef medallions. Serve with your favourite salad. My supermarket dash yielded more than 20 jars of pasta sauce, which I tasted hot with pasta. I included Bolognese sauce, although mostly only the ones that suggested on the label that they could be eaten without adding meat. Heinz was in there, of course – you can’t have missed its recent, hugely expensive launch, which has rattled the sauce cages, much as Loyd Grossman’s snapped at Dolmio’s heels when it appeared on the shelves in 1995. With pasta sauce, it’s every tomato for itself. Loyd Grossman's have a huge range of sauces on offer with varying syn values, we’ve listed the rest of their syns down below to help you out.

Heat the oil in a pan and add the bacon. Cook for 4-5 minutes until the bacon is cooked. Add the pepper and cook for a further 2 to 3 minutes until the pepper is beginning to brown. Add the sauce and simmer gently until it has heat through. In another pan, add dry penne pasta to salted boiling water. When al dente, add to the sauce and mix through. Take off the heat and let stand for a minute. Stir through lots of torn basil leaves, top with grated parmesan and serve immediately. As I am a big fan of his sauces, I have decided to give recipes and review on two of his most popular sauces, Tomato and Basil, and Tikka Masala.No added sugar but still very rich – just a bit too heavy handed with the herbs to eat straight; better with meat. The chilli is lovely but there is not much else going on. Some sweetness but not enough tomato flavour. In our guide below we will discuss why Loyd’s tomato pasta sauce is so low in syns, some syn values, low syn alternatives to this tomato sauce and our best SW tomato and basil recipe. Why Is Loyd’s Tomato Sauce So Low In Syns? Loyd Grossman is an British-American television presenter, musician, and food critic. Grossman has released his own unique sauces into the market which include curry and tomato based sauces.

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Vile. Like a dab of tomato purée mixed with water and cornflour, plus some forgotten old dried herbs. Very mellow. It tastes posh, if a little bit confected. Comes out mild when teamed with pasta; some nice lumps.

Italians buy jars of tomato sauce too, I discovered on a recent trip to Emilia-­Romagna, the region regarded as gourmet even by the Italians – home of Parma ham, Parmesan Reggiano and ragu Bolognese. There were plenty of jars in the shops, albeit all made in Italy (whereas much of ours, including the best-selling Dolmio, is made in the Netherlands or elsewhere). I asked my Italian guide if she would ever buy one. “For sure,” she told me, “when I’ve run out of my mum’s home-made version.”Shows promising lumps of tomato and cubes of carrot but there’s almost no flavour! Just a bitter afternote. This classic tomato and basil sauce from Loyd Grossman is a simple and tasty option for those occasions when you don’t really have time to cook, but still want a proper meal. So, for example, the label on one pot of flavoured yoghurt shows that it has 8g saturated fat and 40 per cent of the reference intake. That’s because the reference intake for saturated fat is “no more than 20g” per day. So eat a full pot and you are 40 per cent of the way there. It might make you think twice about what else you eat that day. At just 3 syns for 100g, most of Loyd’s tomato sauces are very low in syns, making them a great pasta sauce to use when you don’t feel like cooking. These sauces are low in syns since they mainly consist of just tomatoes and veg which are naturally low in calories.