How to Make Homemade Tomato Sauce

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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