tomato paste
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- noun
- /təˈmeɪtoʊ peɪst/
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pasta de tomate
- To make a rich sauce, start by adding tomato paste to the pan with sautéed vegetables.
- tablespoon of tomato paste
- add tomato paste
- 1-oz can of tomato paste
This is actually a three in one tomato paste wine sofrito, which is carrot, celery and onion and that equals.
- This is actually a three in one tomato paste wine sofrito, which is carrot, celery and onion and that equals.
Examples
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Now add the tomato paste and the herbage:
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Your recipe sounds good, and I have some homemade tomato paste; this would be a perfect use for it.
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Who would eat a pizza with all that tomato paste on it? they asked.
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I doubled the amount of tomato paste.
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We left out the tomato paste and cooked the mushrooms at least twice as long as the recipe said to.
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For the sauce, I started with a base of tomato paste from a teeny 50-cent can.
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Add onion, garlic, chili, mushrooms, carrots, tomato paste, wine, and top off with water until everything is covered.
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Using a variety of mushrooms gave nice textures and flavor, and the Worcestershire sauce and tomato paste helped give me some of that beef flavor I was looking for.
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We've got an onion, a pepper, some tomato paste, garlic paste, stock cube and passata and then some parmesan to go on top.
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Coriander, oregano, chili flakes, and tomato paste, and mix until the meat is evenly coated with seasonings.
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Synonyms
A thick red paste made by removing most water from tomatoes to add flavour
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'tomato' (the fruit) + 'paste' (a concentrated smooth mixture): a paste made from tomatoes. This compound is a literal, cross-linguistically common cooking term and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Tomato paste comes from the simple idea of cooking ripe tomato until it becomes a thick paste. Cooks cook and strain tomatoes to make a sticky, rich paste, so today tomato paste means a 'concentrated' tomato product used to add strong flavor to dishes.