PASTA SAUCE

This is a lovely sauce which you can use over roasted vegetables or for meat dishes as well as  pasta sauce.

YOU NEED

• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 small shallot, chopped
• 1 clove of garlic-crushed -
• 20 cherry tomatoes - left whole -
• 10 black olives ( pitted )
• 10 green olives ( pitted )
• 5-6 chestnut mushrooms -sliced -
• 8 fl oz hot water
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley
• 1 tbsp fresh tyme
• some chilli (optional )
• 2 oz feta cheese
• dash of lemon juice
• black pepper
• Parmesan , to serve

METHOD

Fry the onion in olive oil add garlic, tomatoes, olives, mushrooms , tomato paste, chopped herbs,  chilli. Add water. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring. Add feta cheese and lemon juice and cook further 5 minutes  and pepper to taste.Sprinkle parmesan just before serving.