I tasted 11 brands of canned whole tomatoes. The following are my favorites for different cooking methods, plus one that ...

Bocca di Lupo is one of London’s best-loved Italian restaurants, and its owner, Jacob Kenedy, is equally effusive about tinned plum tomatoes – “the answer to every last minute meal”.

This will flavour the oil, which in turn will flavour the tomatoes. Add the chillies and then the tinned plum tomatoes and their juice. In the summer you can replace tinned tomatoes with fresh ones.