This is an easy way to make your own tomato sauce, and the flavor of the fresh tomatoes really comes through.Īugust 16, - I have a lot of allergies to additives too, so I make my own tomato sauce.īlend up a carrot, 64 ounces of crushed tomato, a melted stick of butter, a couple stalks of celery, a clove or two of garlic and finally, salt and pepper.īlend it until it's smooth and then shimmer it on low for an hour. I would also add whatever spices and seasonings such as garlic, oregano and onions during this time. When I was ready to use this for sauce, I would place the paste in a crock pot on the lowest setting for several hours. Once frozen, the bags laid nicely in the freezer and you could stack up quite a few of them without taking up too much space. One year when I had a bumper crop of tomatoes and ran out of people to give them to, I decided I would make my own homemade tomato sauce.Ī friend of mine told me that she would put the tomatoes in a blender and then freeze this mixture in plastic bags. My dad was happy to enjoy a good pasta dish that he had not been able to eat in a long time. Once you let the sauce simmer down and add the right amount of flavoring, the sauce tasted much better than what I buy in the jar. One year I made a tomato sauce from some of the orange tomatoes he had planted. Home grown orange tomatoes taste much better than any kind of store bought tomatoes, but I still prefer the red ones over any other color. He does not have any problem with the orange tomatoes though - only the dark red ones. My dad can't eat regular tomatoes or pasta sauce because of the high acid content. For the most part, my family is used to this and is what we use most of the time. Most nights I don't have much time to get a meal on the table, so whenever I have a pasta dish, I will use a store bought tomato pasta sauce.
I serve this sauce with spaghetti and lasagna dishes and always get a lot of compliments.
This really makes the tomato sauce have a hearty flavor. If I know I am going to be using ground beef in my pasta recipe, I will substitute any water in the recipe for tomato sauce with beef broth. Whenever I make a batch, I always make way more than I need so I can freeze the leftovers to use in other meals. You have to allow some time and expect to do some chopping of vegetables, but the effort is always worth it to make a hearty, homemade tomato sauce.