Sauce à la Provençale (Provençal Tomato Sauce)

Ingredients

• 12 fine tomatoes
• 2 decilitres and a half oil
• salt
• pepper
• a pinch of powdered sugar
• 1 small clove of garlic
• 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley

Instructions

1. Peel, press, seed and roughly chop 12 fine tomatoes.
2. Put them into a sauté pan holding 2 decilitres and a half of smoking-hot oil.
3. Season with salt, pepper and a pinch of powdered sugar.
4. Add the well-crushed clove of garlic and the teaspoonful of chopped parsley.
5. Cover and let it melt down very gently for half an hour.