Food 52

Gingery Chinese Tomato Sauce

An off-roading experiment using Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce with Onions and Butter as the starting point, this sauce is spicy and tangy and surprisingly versatile. Marcella Hazan's recipe has a balance of simplicity and rich flavor, which brought to mind one of my favorite quick yet vibrant dishes: classic Chinese scrambled eggs with tomatoes. I reworked the sauce to include the zingy, strong flavors used in the dish to make a lively sauce that is delicious as a dumpling dipping sauce, piled on top of spicy shrimp and grits, or in a breakfast sandwich as a callback to the sauce's inspiration.