Roasted-Tomato Sauce

By Lv2Cook

Ingredients

• 2 pounds plum tomatoes cut in half lengthwise
• 1 onion cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices
• 1 jalapeño pepper halved and seeded
• Cooking spray
• 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 drained canned chipotle chile seeded

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 500º.

Arrange the plum tomatoes, onion slices, and jalapeño pepper on a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray, and bake vegetables at 500º for 30 minutes. Remove jalapeño pepper from pan. Bake tomatoes and onion slices an additional 15 minutes or until the vegetables are soft. Combine the tomatoes, onion slices, jalapeño pepper, lime juice, salt, and chipotle chile in a food processor, and process until tomato mixture is smooth.

Serving Size: 1 tablespoon