Eight creative ways to use Slyly Simple spicy tomato sauce

Our spicy tomato sauce with olives is a smashing hit, and nobody seems to be getting enough of it. We all know that we only need to toss it with some fresh Slyly Simple pasta to make ourselves a fabulous home cooked meal. Having said that, Slyly Simple is all about getting creative, so here are eight other ways you could use your jar of Slyly Simple spicy tomato sauce!

Pizza

Whether you prefer making the dough from scratch or use ready pizza bases - the spicy sauce makes an excellent base sauce for pizza. A layer of sauce and a generous sprinkling of cheese is all you need to make an excellent pizaa - and this could only get better as you add more toppings to it!

Lasagna

A lasagna is certainly an elaborate meal - but once you have a sauce to hold it all together, the rest is pretty easy. Layer the lasagna sheets with Slyly Simple spicy tomato sauce, cheese, vegetables (and meat) and all you need to do is bake it!

Sandwiches

Whether it is for a quick meal on the go, or as part of a picnic lunch - sandwiches are a hot favourite. The sauce keeps the bread from getting dry - and you could always jazz it up further with lettuce leaves, a slice of cheese or some shredded chicken.

Scrambled eggs

Add some zing to your Sunday breakfast. Add a dollop of Slyly Simple sauce into the pan as your scramble the eggs and your breakfast is suddenly an exotic weekend highlight!

Dip

Whether its chips, crackers or salad sticks - Slyly Simple spicy tomato sauce can make them all a lot more interesting!

Tomato rice

A great solution for a quick dinner - warm up some sauce, add the rice and enough water to cook - you may need to season with some extra salt - and you'll have an exotic herbed tomato rice for dinner. Serve alongside yoghurt, and your meal is complete.

Bruschetta

Toasted bread topped off with spicy sauce and all your other favourite toppings - olives, capers, sundried tomatoes, cheese - the list is endless.

Potato skins

Add a spoonful of spicy tomato sauce to your potato skins before you bake them, and get a wonderful flavour to complement the potatoes and cheese.

A Slyly Simple Pizza

Slyly Simple sauces have been a big hit among our Gourmet Club members, and we have been digging around to find out how they have been using our sauces creatively. One big hit is to make a Slyly Simple pizza, and this is how it is done!

Ingredients:

Whole wheat pizza base (you get this at gourmet grocery stores - and if you feel like making the base yourself, try out one of the numerous recipes you can find on the Internet)
Grated mixed cheese - the perfect blend would be mozzarella, cheddar and parmesan. One could also add some feta or blue cheese to make this truly amazing!
Slyly Simple spicy sauce with olives OR Slyly Simple basil walnut pesto for the pesto lovers
Any other toppings you love - olives, capers, sundried tomatoes, shredded chicken, shredded basil... this is the fun part!

And how to do it:

Pre heat the oven to about 160 degrees Celcius
While the oven heats, spread your preferred Slyly Simple sauce over the pizza base. Too much sauce makes a soggy pizza, so a nice thin layer is all you need here.
Add all your favourite toppings
Drizzle generously with cheese

Pop your assembled pizza onto a baking sheet or greased oven tray, and bake for about 15-20 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
Cut the pizza into wegdes using a pizza cutter and serve!

Whole Wheat Macaroni in Creamy Tomato Sauce

Here's a quick fix recipe for an excellent creamy tomato sauce to go with your Slyly Simple whole wheat pasta. This is a hot favourite among kids - and is just as easy to make as any other instant meal.

Ingredients:
Slyly Simple spicy tomato sauce with olives - 150ml
Slyly Simple large macaroni - 1 box
Fresh cream - 50g
Grated cheese to garnish (parmesan tastes best, but use anything in the kitchen)

Procedure:
Cook the Slyly Simple large macaroni as per instructions on the box.
While the pasta cooks, mix together the sauce and cream to get a smooth consistency. Heat the mixture on a pan, or in the microwave (use a microwave friendly bowl and heat for about 1-1.5 minutes).
Once the pasta is cooked, toss it in with the sauce and make sure the pasta is coated well.
Serve into plates and top off with grated cheese.

You can be sure that this instant meal is going to be an instant hit with the kids, and considering that it is made from natural, fresh ingredients, your conscience will not have anything to worry about either!

Simple and sly - here's why

Wake up to an alarm, rush through your morning routine - walk the dog, get ready for work, drink some tea, shove in some breakfast, send the kids to school, instruct the maid... whatever it is that you need to do before you can finally step out. Its a big race to get out of the house on time, so you can spend the next one hour inching along in traffic, wishing you could have had an extra hour in bed instead. Work constitutes long hours in front of a computer, waiting endlessly for elevators, queues at the coffee machine, hurried lunches and dreaming about the weekend! Its finally time to take off in the evening, and you leave work full of plans of a fun evening - a movie perhaps, or visit the new restaurant, a nourishing dinner with the family, maybe invite some friends over. But then you have the arduous task of getting home, and plans change to slouching in front of the television, order in some pizza, serve the family some instant food, and socialize on Facebook instead. Nobody dreams of the mundane evenings we live every day, and yet, somehow, we are all stuck with the routine, Monday to Friday, waiting for the weekend of the mid-week holiday.
Traffic in Bangalore is out of control - and yes I know we all are part of the problem when we drive to work every day instead of using the public transport. Solving the traffic problem is another debate altogether, but we also need to look at what this does to our lives, our choices and our health. This is the very reason why Slyly Simple came into being - to make it possible to eat healthy, tasty and easily on a regular basis, in spite of all the problems that routine, traffic and pressure throw at you.

At the end of your day, the easiest thing to do is to grab a packet of instant noodles from the shelf. Now replace the noodles with a packet of fresh whole wheat pasta, and replace the taste maker with a dollop of fresh pasta sauce - the same effort results in a burst of flavour packed with health, freshness and nutrition. Its easy enough for anybody to make, and healthy enough to be eaten every day.
Experiment, add your own special touch - a dash of cream, some extra cheese, sauteed vegetables, meat, fish - with the basics in place your meal could only go from great to better. Its homemade, its gourmet, its exotic - bring a splash of flavour and fun to your mundane routine slyly and simply!