Dishes with tomato paste - 842 cooking recipes

Tomatoes are boiled until thick and then canned industrially. Tomato paste is thicker and richer than tomato puree. Tomato paste can be salty or fresh. Tomato paste sold in stores packaged in glass or tin jars is unsalted tomato paste. Salted tomato paste is usually intended for other purposes and is stored in wooden barrels. How to prepare tomato paste? At home, this is almost impossible. The best tomato paste has a red-orange hue. The worse the quality of tomato paste, the darker it will be in color. Poor quality tomato paste will be more brown in color. Tomato paste is the main ingredient for making ketchup. Tomato paste can also be used to make basic pizza sauce. Also, tomato paste, diluted with water, turns into tomato juice. Tomato juice from tomato paste retains all the vitamins found in the paste. The famous Georgian satsebeli sauce is also made from premium tomato paste. At home, you can make homemade ketchup from tomato paste. To do this, tomato paste needs to be diluted with some boiled water, and then added to it: garlic, ground black pepper, salt, fresh herbs if desired. The result will be good ketchup from tomato paste. The recipe for making tomato paste at home comes down to slowly boiling fresh tomatoes, turned into puree. In this case, it is best to remove the seeds and skins from tomatoes. Tomato paste