Sweet Cherry Tomato Passata

Sweet, bright and ready for the pan, with none of the bitterness you get from a cheap jar. It is made only from ripe cherry tomatoes, so a sauce needs nothing more than oil, garlic and ten minutes.

The Esposito family pick and jar it in August, in the Sarno valley in Campania. There is no concentrate and no additive, just sun-ripened tomatoes, a little sea salt and basil, so it tastes of the height of summer.