Every year we plant a garden and one of the things that we can grow very well here in Pennsylvania happens to be tomatoes! Now that Summer is over and Fall is settling in, we are harvesting the last of our tomatoes.
Many people think that making your own homemade tomato sauce is a difficult and time-consuming process. Well, I am here to tell you that it is easy and you can have a big batch done in less than one hour. Furthermore, once it is done you can home can it or you can pour it into freezer containers & freeze it for later use.
Here is how I make my homemade tomato sauce.
1. Wash tomatoes. Place them in a big pot of boiling, salted water. Boil them for 2 minutes. Use a big spoon to fish them out and put them in a colander under cold running water to help cool them down. Once they are cool enough to handle, use your hands to gently peel off their skins.
2. Cut the tomatoes in half and then in quarters. Under a light running stream of water, rinse away the seeds. You will get most seeds out of there that way, but not all of them. A few seeds don’t bother us at all.
3. Put the tomato pulp into a blender. I use my NINJA because I find it does a fabulous job at processing the tomatoes into a fine sauce. Cover and blend for about 20 seconds or until all chunks are gone.
4. In a small skillet saute some chopped onion in a little bit of extra virgin olive oil until the onions are cooked.
5. Place the tomato sauce into a large pan. Stir in the sauteed onions. Add in basil, salt, ground black pepper and some granulated sugar according to your own taste buds. Simmer this mixture over low heat for about 17 minutes, stirring every few minutes.
6. Now your sauce is done. You can can it according to home canning instructions or let it completely cool and pour it into labeled freezer containers.
It is soooooo much better than canned or jarred sauce that you buy at the store! Plus, we always throw in a few yellow tomatoes which we swear makes it taste a lot better, a tad sweeter type of thing!
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Lots of oregano in my tomato sauce please. I haven’t made homemade since I had a garden, many moons ago. It really is better than canned or from a jar.
This is an easy recipe for tomato sauce and the next time I have a lot of tomatoes I shall try it. It is important to wash awy the seeds with alight stream of water since you don’t want to lose too much of the tomato pulp.
Ah, I wish I had access to good tomatoes! Chances are very good we’ll be moving next spring, and I’m really hoping we’ll find a place where I can have a real garden, especially now that I know how to can foods myself.
I love when you share your recipes. Thanks!
I just love Homemade Tomato soup! It is so much better than the stores, and your soup looks so delicious. I will have to give it a try!
Home made always tastes better!
I’m going to make this.
thanks
Yum, nothing like or nothing beats homemade! I have always wanted to make my own, and you make it look so easy! Thanks!
It really is easy! I can most of mine but I do freeze about 6 containers of tomato sauce every year. When you need it, just take it out of the freezer the night before & put it in your refrigerator overnight. You can use it when making chili, homemade veggie soup, spice it up for pizza sauce, etc.
I love tomatoes so much and this recipe sounds wonderful and one that I have to try. Thank you for the nice and easy instructions.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. We had planted a garden for the first time this year and we had so many tomatoes, I was getting tired of eating salad! We are still harvesting the last few.
Next year I will know better and make sauce.
Guess out sauce may end up being yellow because we grew a lot of the yellow pear heirloom tomatoes and loved them.
We like to mix our red tomatoes with the yellow ones when we make our sauce. The yellow tomatoes tend to be juicier and have a slightly sweeter taste. Plus, I heard they have less acid. Regardless, we usually mix ours together when we make our sauces.
Thank you for that helpful tip. Do you still other skinning the yellow tomotoes since their skins are so much thinner and less tough (probably my main reason for loving them so much)?
Also, what are some other kinds of tomatoes you would recommend growing?
My friends have a big garden and make their own tomato sauce. It’s always so good. They use basil in theirs, too.