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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 8:59 pm
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Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
If you have your parrilla fired up, you could BBQ whole tomatoes so the skin is a bit charred. Remove the charred skin and use the tomatoes in your sauce. The smoked flavour will be just strong enough. Peppers/capsicums would be nice too.

Could also roast the other veg you put in such as onions, garlic, carrots first (if you don't saute them which is what I usually do).
Sounds great! I just want to add, if you can not find fresh mushrooms, please don't use tinned ones. IMHO, it is better to find some dried mushrooms, which you can reconstitute with water.
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