Seasoned tomato sauce
Seasoned tomato sauce recipe in the canning category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 4 medium carrots, sliced
- 2 cups chopped celery
- 2 green bell peppers, chopped
- 18 to 20 large tomatoes
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 teaspoons salt, or to taste
Recipe method:
- Saute onion, carrots, celery and green peppers in olive oil until onions are limp and transparent.
- Peel, core and chop tomatoes. You should have 4 quarts.
- Add to vegetables and cook about 15 minutes.
- Puree vegetables in a food processor, press through a fine sieve, or put through a food mill.
- Add salt and cook sauce, uncovered, until thick, about 1 hour, stirring frequently to prevent sticking.
- The final consistency should fall halfway between juice and paste.
- Quickly ladle into clean, hot jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Seal.
- Process in boiling water bath 45 minutes.
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