Nancy's Homemade Tomato Sauce
- Number of Servings: 96
Ingredients
Directions
1 bushel of plum tomatoes4 medium onions (chopped)10 cloves of garlic (chopped or squeezed through press)6 tablespoons of olive oildried:marjorimthymeoreganorosemarybasil
Blanch and skin tomatoes and remove seeds. Squeeze out excess water from tomato pulp. In 2 large pots place half each of the olive oil, onion (chopped) and garlic (pressed or chopped) and saute until onion is clear. Add tomatoes. Add dried spices to taste. Cook on low heat, uncovered for several hours stirring often until sauce has reduced to about half. Take an immersion blender and pulse several times throughout pot of sauce until it is the consistancy you like. Makes approximately twelve 1-pint jars.
Number of Servings: 96
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user NEWME720.
Number of Servings: 96
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user NEWME720.
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 50.1
- Total Fat: 1.5 g
- Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
- Sodium: 17.5 mg
- Total Carbs: 9.4 g
- Dietary Fiber: 2.2 g
- Protein: 1.7 g
Member Reviews
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STORMY724
This sounds great. I make my own sauce from garden tomatoes, but it always turns out runny, so I add tomato paste to thicken it. But, of course, I just made up my recipe without consulting a cookbook. Dummy me, I never thought to remove the seeds & squeeze out the excess moisture. - 8/11/10