How to Make Tomato Sauce: Fastest Way to Make Tomato Sauce
Making tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes doesn’t have to be hard. In this post, I will tell you how to make quick tomato sauce and how to make tomato sauce at home that you’ll love.
Quick Tomato Sauce: 5 Easy Steps
When planning to make quick tomato sauce, I try to pick as many tomatoes as I can from the garden to make the job worth it. I tend to take on large preservation projects, and tomato sauce is no exception. When I bring them in from the garden, I wash them and remove any stems.
2. Add to Roaster
Once they’re washed, I throw them all in our my roaster. If I want to add anything extra, like peppers, garlic, onions, basil – I’ll do that now. I literally cut the onions in half WITH the papers, and throw those in. I don’t deseed my peppers. I don’t take off the garlic papers. I don’t remove basil stems. This will all get pulverized in the Vitamix, and it saves SO MUCH TIME.
3. Cook to Soften
Let everything cook in the roaster for at least 4 hours on 200 or so. I’ve let myself stuff cook for up to 48 hours, and honestly, it’s fine. That’s the beauty of this method. You can get sidetracked by 100 things over a few days, and it’s all good. As long as your roaster is still on low heat (around 200), everything will be fine.
4. Blender Time
Once everything is soft, pour in batches into the Vitamix. People also use an immersion blender, but I absolutely prefer the Vitamix for this step. Blend everything up into beautiful sauce. At this point, you can pour the sauce into a large stock pot because you’re going to start canning it soon. It’s already going to be hot, so you can just put your large stock pot on low on the stove while you get your jars and such ready.
5. Water Bath Can
Water bath can your sauce. Tomato sauce needs water bath canned for 40 minutes for quarts and 35 minutes for pints. You’ll want to make sure the acidity is high enough, so add 2 tablespoons of bottled lemon juice to each quart jar (or 1 tablespoon to each pint) before filling with the sauce. Follow all the usual safe canning procedures, like hot jars, hot sauce, hot water in the canner, and make sure everything is as clean as possible.
Quick Tomato Sauce Recipes
Seasoning and salt do not affect the safety of canning, so this is not something that I worry about when it comes to safe canning practices.
Quick Tomato Sauce Saves Time
Once you’re tomato sauce is finished canning, you can remove the rings, label, and you’ll have beautiful tomato sauce to use all year long on pasta, in chili, in meat sauce, or whatever else you need it for!
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