Make Your Own Pizza Or Pasta Sauce

Make Your Own Pizza Or Pasta Sauce

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Make your own marinara sauce for pizza and pasta. It takes a little time but it's well worth it. You can use exactly the spices that you like and fresh tomatoes make a very different sauce than canned. (But if you have a ton or tomatoes, you can bottle what you don't use fresh.)

How to Chop and Seed Tomatoes

1: To skin your fresh tomatoes, you will need to scald them. Bring a large pot of water to boil. Place four or five tomatoes in the hot water and leave them for one minute. The hot water will loosen the skins. Remove the tomatoes from the hot water and set them aside to cool. Continue with the rest of the tomatoes.

2. Peel the tomatoes by starting a small slit in the skin with a knife at the tip of a tomato. Grasp the edge of the skin and peel the skin from the tomato in strips. Repeat with each tomato.

3. Cut away the top of the tomato. Cut the tomato in half. With your thumb, loosen the seeds and press them into a bowl or into the sink. With Roma tomatoes, only the flesh will remain. With other tomatoes, you can remove most of the seeds. Throw the seeds away. Repeat with the remaining tomatoes.

Tools for Removing the Seeds from Tomatoes

Though you can seed and peel tomatoes by hand, tools will make the job go faster. Choose the tool that is best for you--a Victorio strainer, a potato ricer, or a food mill. Whatever you use, make sure the screen is small enough to catch the seeds. For high volume jobs, a Victorio strainer is best. It has a hopper on the top into which you load your tomatoes and a crank handle that forces the tomatoes through a screen separating the skins and the seeds. You will get the same results with food mill but it is not as fast. A ricer will do one tomato at a time. All of these tools can be used for to puree other produce. A ricer is commonly used to rice potatoes.

Canning Your Tomato Sauce

If you love your own tomato sauce, can it. Maybe you like the spice blend that you are using. Maybe it's the idea of doing it yourself, maybe canning your own tomatoes. Maybe it's to save money but it's great to can your own tomato sauce. Just make a bigger batch and can it according to the instructions from a reliable source such as your equipment manual or a government source.

Tomato Sauce for Pizza or Pasta

2 to 3 cups peeled and seeded Roma or other tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
1 large garlic clove, crushed
1 teaspoon crushed, dried oregano or a tablespoon of fresh
1 teaspoon dried basil leaves or two teaspoons fresh
2 tablespoons olive oil

Baker's note: Add garlic, oregano, and basil to suit your tastes. Fresh herbs can be substituted for the dried one but it will take more for the same flavor.

Directions

Chop the seeded tomatoes in a food processor or blender. Cook the tomatoes along with the seasonings and sugar for ten minutes or until it starts to thicken, stirring frequently. Add the olive oil. Let cool.

About the Author:
Dennis Weaver is a well-known author who has written extensively about food including the free 250 page e-book, ""How to Bake" with techniques from professional cooks and culinary schools. He is president of The Prepared Pantry, a seller of ingredients, kitchen tools, gourmet food, and baking mixes— plus canning supplies including canning strainers and peelers.



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