For the Best Tomato Sauce, Add the Leaves
The key to a mora aromatic, flavorful homemade tomato sauce? It might be growing right alongside your tomatoes. Joe reveals the surprising part of the plant can help bring back the fresh, garden-picked aroma you lose during cooking. The tomato leaves/vines are for infusing flavor, not for eating (think of them like a bay leaf). Be sure to pull them out before you dig in!
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Bro lost all credibility at the end when chewing
It’s called leave the lid on lol. You do the same when brewing herbs in Chinese medicine . Keep the lid on. Not rocket science.
You're British – you know how to pronounce tomato properly. This sounds ridiculous!!
PLEASANT DAY MY DEAR BROTHER AND COUSINS 💕💕💕❤️🍀
simmer on a lower Flame it takes longer but Taste better Your Welcome a very Low simmer to warm 10 Hours
Why you speaking with an English accent but saying tomayyto
The leaf stems on the tomato plant also contain a compound which is poisonous (glycoalkaloids, primarily tomatine – also called α-tomatine.
I’m assuming remove the leaves and vines once the sauce has cooked down fully?
Não é recomendado colocar as folhas de tomate no molho. Elas contêm concentrações de solanina e tomatina, alcaloides que, em grandes quantidades, podem ser tóxicos e causar dor de estômago ou enjoos.
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Thanks so much for this tip! ❤
Is this a joke???
There's something funny about people not wanting to do this out of concern for their pets. It's valid, but they shouldn't have it regardless because alliums (onions and garlic) are also toxic to them.
This is fascinating. Love ATK
Someone really called those two compounds hexanal and hexenal?
vine and stalk is bitter – skip it
Leaves faint green herbal – not worth seeking out, skip unless you have a couple
Wishing there was still a thumbs down👎 button instead of that stupid heart so we could let them know how we really feel about this post.
This makes a lot of sense to me. I grew tomatoes for the first time this year and have a handful of successful bushy plants. Whenever I prune suckers or pinch off buds, the leaves smell very strongly of tomato.
Everyone should give growing tomatoes a shot if they have the space for it. They're extremely hardy plants. One of mine has even bounced back after having some of its roots eaten by a gopher or vole who has been terrorizing my garden beds
So, 99 percent of dishes cooked loose all their flavor in the steam?! Don’t buy it. Like the leaf idea though.
Yeah, just be sure to wash those vines first….
Ingesting the leaves in standard culinary proportions is unlikely to cause harm, as significant toxicity typically requires the consumption of an exceptionally large volume of foliage.However, tomato foliage and vines can be highly toxic to pets such as dogs, cats, and horses if ingested. So NO I will not be using tomato leaves in my sauce.
Don't do this.
It’s so wrong hearing someone with your accent say tomato/tomatoey like that.
I love the smell of tomato when i touch the vines and leaves. However i had thought that the vines and leaves were poisonous? So by adding to the sauce for 5 or 6 minutes will give a flavor boost but because you remove them before serving words? Thats a great tip.
wait I always thought the rest of the tomato plant was toxic
Its wild that you tell people to use tomato leaves and stems without giving a disclamer that they contain toxic compounds. Im reporting this video.
I found this out accidentally, and when I tasted it I couldn't believe that was the flavor missing for real old grandma made tomato sauce.
It's truly mind-blowing, and only takes a couple of leaves something like twice what you'd use of laurel, if even that.
You’re the first person I’ve ever heard who says tomato plants smell great. I love tomatoes but hate the way the plants smell.
Don't even add a little bit of the tomato plant leaves. It's a nightshade and is one of the more toxic plants that we humans are all aware of. There's plenty of other seasonings and techniques that will make your sauce just as tasty.
Serve it with a green salad made of rhubarb leaves to make 100% sure you get sick.
The dose makes the poison. Steeping a few for 10 mins is safe I think. Any experts here want to chime in? Experts not google doctors.