How to make a carrot based sauce taste more tomatoey?

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I have a guest for lunch who is allergic to tomato. I'm going to make pasta as one of the dishes and have already made fresh pesto, but am trying out a carrot based sauce. So far it has pureed carrot, fresh basil, oregano, a little stock, garlic and onion. It's tasty but wonder out of interedt if I could add something to make it more tomatoey. Maybe something acidic? Or another herb?

Sugar, lemon juice, worcester sauce, mild paprika ( for colour).

Great ideas! I have sugar lemon and Worcestershire sauce, but will get some paprika tomorrow morning. I think it'll help the sweet/sour thing it needs.

Skinned red peppers- check they can have those though as they are related to tomatoes, similarly aubergine. Plus maybe a little beetroot for sweetness. Diced courgette also good to add sweetness/body if Fried til sweet and reduced like onions.

Thank you Zazie. On your advice I added some beetroot and courgette which worked really well.