Take a muffin tin and a loaf of bread and you can create loads of tasty, economical recipes!
Ingredients
Basic Bread Basket
- 1 loaf thick sliced bread, preferably wholemeal
- Olive oil spray
Basic Sauce
- 1 tablespoon polyunsaturated olive oil
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 1 clove garlic
- 700g bottle of tomato passata or sugo
- ½ teaspoon sugar
Method
Basic Bread Basket:
- Cut the crust off sliced bread, large sliced bread works better if available
- Roll out bread with a bottle or rolling pin
- Spray muffin tin with olive oil spray
- Push bread into a muffin tray
- Bake in a moderate oven for 5-10 minutes or until lightly browned and crisp
- Fill with chosen filling and serve/bake.
Basic Sauce:
- Heat oil in a frypan
- Brown onion and garlic in oil until onion is soft
- Add passata and sugar, simmer gently for 10 minutes
- Sauce can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge for a few days or frozen in smaller batches.