Home made tomato sauce

nomorearmflab
nomorearmflab Posts: 76
edited October 4 in Recipes
Ingredients:
Lots of tomatos! I use more than five.
basil
salt
pepper
garlic
bay leaves ( if you got 'em)
olive oil ( 2 tblsp)

tools:
Wooden spoon
blender
saucepan ( medium to large)

1. Blend together the tomatoes, lots of basil, salt and pepper. blend until smooth!
[EDIT] Make sure to cute the tomato into quarters! it helps to blend it faster.
2. It will become a pinkish hue. Yup, weird but awesome. Put the sauce pan on a burner on hot and put in the olive oil.
3. Pour the frothy pink goodness into the sauce pan and watch, stirring slowly. After a while it'll start frothing more, stir and set the heat a smidgen lower.
4. Wait. wait until you are tired of waiting and wait some more. Remember to stir on occasion. when you notice that the wonderful goo has reduced to half of what it was and is a red color toss the bay leaves in. now more basil, salt and pepper and put to simmer for a little bit longer.
5. once your entire house smells of bay leaves and untold promises of pasta to come, take out the bay leaves.
6. Your sauce will be done when you notice that there is a very very thin layer of red juice boiling over a lot of delicious looking sauce. when stirred, it will all come together and will look like tomato sauce. It will stick to your spoon a bit, and tasting it at this point is a great idea. ( it helps if you know what tomato sauce looks like when it is in a pan)

7. put away and enjoy whenever you need it! remember to refrigerate!

Replies

  • tannyb
    tannyb Posts: 131 Member
    What a great idea - I never would have thought of making my own tomato sauce (or had any idea how), but I'll have to give this a try! Thanks!
  • aliciagetshealthy
    aliciagetshealthy Posts: 946 Member
    Thank you for this! I had been trying for a while to find a recipe for making homemade pasta sauce and everything I came across started with a "can"....If I wanted a stupid can, I'd have just bought prego and been done with it! You win my favorite person of the day award!! :flowerforyou:
  • Thank you for this! I had been trying for a while to find a recipe for making homemade pasta sauce and everything I came across started with a "can"....If I wanted a stupid can, I'd have just bought prego and been done with it! You win my favorite person of the day award!! :flowerforyou:
    awwwww thank you! :3
    by the way, if you want a thicker sauce, strain it through two or three cheese clothes.
  • Do you peel the tomatoes first?
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