Homemade tomato sauce

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 4 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make tomato sauce for the winter? Prepare your food. Wash the tomatoes thoroughly and dry them with a towel. Using a knife, remove all spoiled parts (if any). Cut the tomatoes into medium-sized pieces, removing any tough white veins. Pass the tomato pieces through a meat grinder.

2. STEP 2

   

   Peel the onions, then, like the tomatoes, cut them into medium-sized pieces with a knife. Pass the onion through a meat grinder directly into the container with the tomatoes. Carefully transfer the resulting tomato-onion mixture into a saucepan.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add bay leaf, clove bud and black peppercorns so that when stewing, these seasonings fully impart their aroma and taste to the tomato sauce. Place the pan with the contents on the fire. Bring the sauce to a boil, then reduce the heat. Cook it for 1 hour so that the tomatoes and onions soften and make it easier to puree later. During this time, stir the sauce periodically to prevent it from burning.

4. STEP 4

   

   Remove the bay leaf from the boiled tomato-onion mixture. Rub the mixture into a deep container through a sieve, thus separating the cake (a little remains at the exit) and leaving the pepper and cloves; they will no longer be needed, since they have already given up their aroma to the future sauce. Pour the tomato sauce with pulp from the deep container back into the pan and return to the stove. Cook it for another 2 hours on the lowest heat. Be careful not to burn the sauce.

5. STEP 5

   

   Also, do not forget to stir it periodically. While preparing the sauce, add granulated sugar and a little salt. Bring it from a liquid state to a thicker one. At the end of cooking, when the tomato sauce becomes thicker, add vinegar, stir and taste the sauce. If something is missing, add (sugar, salt, vinegar).

6. STEP 6

   

   Sterilize the jars (this must be done in advance). Place boiling tomato sauce into jars. Boil the lids in a saucepan for a few minutes, then place them on top of the jars and close tightly. Leave the jars of sauce to cool, covered with a blanket or blanket. Store the cooled sauce in the refrigerator.

Comments on the recipe

Natalia M

09.08.2023

4.5

I prepared homemade tomato sauce for the winter using this recipe. I increased the number of servings because there were a lot of tomatoes. I passed the vegetables through a meat grinder and boiled them until soft along with aromatic seasonings. And then, in the old fashioned way, I rubbed the tomatoes and onions through a sieve. I boiled the sauce for an hour and a half in a cauldron. A foam appeared on top, which I removed so that the mass would not run away. In general, you can simmer for a long time, then the sauce will turn out very thick. Or you can just roll it up like this and the sauce will be liquid. It's a matter of taste! My tomato sauce turned out quite thick, a little textured and very tasty! It is sweet and sour, with a spicy aftertaste! It’s very easy to seal in jars; you don’t even need to sterilize the product. It is enough that the jars and lids are sterile. I cooled these jars upside down under the blanket.

Alina Viktorovna

09.08.2023

5

Nice recipe! I've been looking for something like this for a long time! And you can try and cook it like this

alexa

09.08.2023

4.7

Homemade tomato sauce for the winter - a preparation for the winter that will give a summer taste to your favorite soup! I seal tomatoes in jars for borscht every year, because without tomatoes in winter, borscht is not the same at all. But buying tomatoes in a store during the cold season is expensive and not always healthy. Thank you very much for the recipe!

Ilya R

09.08.2023

5

I messed up a little... I forgot to remove the cake. I mixed everything with a blender until smooth. And I added pieces of garlic and bell pepper. Of course I deviated from the recipe, but it didn’t get any worse.