Alexander Gushchin

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There are a large number of dishes in which tomato sauce is an indispensable part. The main difficulty is that some recipes require a special dressing. In such cases, you need to know how to tomato sauce to make it perfect for pizza, pasta or other dishes.

How to cook

This ingredient can be found ready-made in stores, but many housewives prefer to make it on their own. Cooking tomato sauce at home allows you to control the taste, naturalness of the dish, specific nuances. Some recipes require care when creating the gravy. To obtain the desired result, you should take into account the features of the preparatory stage, the rules of preparation and storage. Start by choosing the right ingredients.

Food preparation

To make delicious homemade tomato sauce, choose the right tomatoes. You want ripe, deep red, juicy fruits. Tomatoes from a greenhouse that were not grown in the sun will not work, discard green, brown or veined fruits. Some recipes include vegetable pulp. To obtain the desired consistency, the fruits are peeled, seeds and rubbed through a sieve. This is easier to do if you pre-scald the tomatoes with boiling water.

Preservation Recipes

There are many ways to make tomato paste sauce and store it for the winter. It can then be used to cook borscht, chicken, or other meats. You can immediately close several jars that will be stored without problems for the entire season. During the cooking process, you yourself can control taste qualities, which is very important if you later want to make some special dish. Below are the most popular and delicious recipes with photo.

With plums

This gravy option is suitable not only for adding to different dishes to give a spicy taste, but also just for spreading on bread. For a variety of recipes, you can use either cilantro or basil. Choose one thing, when you add both options, one of them will surely kill the other. The preparation of tomato sauce at home is described in detail below.

Ingredients:

  • garlic - 100 grams;
  • fleshy red tomatoes - 2 kg;
  • granulated sugar- 150 g;
  • onion- 3 pcs.;
  • hot pepper - 2 pods;
  • salt - 2 tbsp. l.;
  • large plums - 1.3 kg.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse the tomatoes, cut into slices, peel the plums too, remove the seeds.
  2. Garlic, peel the bulbs. Divide the onion into small slices, pass the garlic through the press. Set these ingredients aside for now.
  3. Remove the seeds from the chili pepper, you need to chop it very finely.
  4. Pass plums, tomatoes through a meat grinder. You can use a blender.
  5. Sugar, salt should be added to the mass of vegetables, and garlic is not needed yet.
  6. Cook the sauce over low heat, after it boils, you need to keep it on fire for another hour and a half. Don't forget to stir constantly.
  7. Add garlic 10 minutes before the end of cooking.
  8. Cool down ready meal and you can start canning in jars (sterilize them first).
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Enjoying great popularity in all countries of the world: not a single hamburger or barbecue is complete without this aromatic additive.

Unfortunately, store-bought ketchup has a negative effect on your health and figure, and it’s definitely not worth giving it to children.

"What should I do, because my child loves ketchup so much?" - you ask. The answer is simple - make your own tomato sauce. Indeed, in the product that you personally made, there will definitely not be any harmful additives, dyes and preservatives.

You can make such an addition to the main dish not only for once, but also prepare tomato sauce for the winter.

What products will be needed

Before we present you with recipes for tomato sauces, let's talk about what products and jars to choose for twists.

  • The main ingredient in this recipe is tomatoes. It is advisable to choose large fleshy fruits, but if there are none, then any others will do. The main advantage of the seasoning is that you can use not only whole and even tomatoes, but you can buy for more low price bruised, cracked or irregular shape(you don't care to mash them anyway). It is only important that they are fresh.
  • If you are making a tomato dressing for borscht, then it is not necessary to remove the seeds from the tomatoes, but in other cases, make sure that the seeds do not come across in the sauce.
  • Spices in all the recipes below are an optional ingredient. Add them to your liking: love spicy - more pepper, fragrant - more herbs, etc.
  • If you are closing homemade tomato sauce for the winter, sterilize the jars well and boil the lids. It is also possible to put the product in glass bottles with a screw cap, however, in this case, store them in a cool place.

Sauce "Classic"

This tomato sauce is neutral, although very tasty. A lot of people like him.

Ingredients:

  • Tomatoes - 1 kg.
  • Large onion - 2 pcs.
  • Sugar - 150 g.
  • Salt - 1 tbsp. l.
  • Odorless vegetable oil - 50 ml.

Cooking method

If you took a tomato “non-standard”, then we cut out all the spoiled and rotten places (note that you need to take “substandard” 1.5 times more than whole tomatoes without defects).

We cut the tomatoes into large pieces. We wipe them through a sieve, discard the skins and seeds.

We cut the onion into small cubes. Fry it enough. in large numbers oils up to golden color. We send tomato puree, salt and sugar to the fried onions. Fry the tomatoes until they boil well and excess liquid evaporates from them.

Beat the mixture with a blender. Let it boil again. We pack hot in pre-sterilized half-liter jars and roll up. We put the jars on the floor, covered with a towel, lids down, wrap them in a blanket and leave them in this form overnight. In the morning we put the jars in a dark place.

Tomato sauce recipe for those who love spicy

This seasoning is suitable for passionate and hot natures - thrill-seekers. By the way, there is an opinion that moderately spicy food is good for the stomach and blood circulation. Serve this sauce with meat or pasta.

Ingredients:

  • Tomatoes - 4 kg.
  • Garlic - 2 large heads or 3 medium.
  • Sugar - 6 tbsp. l.
  • Salt - 0.5 tbsp. l.
  • Coarse black pepper - 1 tbsp. l. with a hill.
  • Allspice - 10 peas.
  • Carnation - 10 inflorescences.
  • Vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Hot peppers - 2 pods.
  • Paprika - 1 tbsp. l.

How to cook hot sauce

My tomatoes, remove all rotten and beaten places. We cut them into large pieces. Pour into a deep saucepan and bring to a boil.

After boiling, reduce the heat under the pan and simmer the future tomato sauce for half an hour.

Cut the pepper into rings and send it to the tomatoes. Stew tomatoes with hot pepper another 30 minutes. Add all the indicated spices and cook the sauce for another 15 minutes.

While the sauce is cooking, peel and pass all the garlic through the garlic press. Add it to the tomato mixture and simmer for another 10 minutes. Remove the sauce from the heat and pass it through a sieve. Return mixture to saucepan, bring to a boil. Add vinegar and simmer another 10 minutes.

Pour the sauce into pre-sterilized jars and roll them up. We put the jars with the lids down on the floor covered with a towel and cover them with a warm blanket. We leave them in this form for 12 hours. After we remove the jars in a dark cool place.

From the given amount of ingredients, you should get about three half-liter jars of ketchup. If you want to cook this homemade tomato sauce in more, then take all the products more than 2-3 times.

Sweet and sour sauce

You can cook an unusual tomato sauce for the winter. The recipe for this seasoning is given below.

Ingredients:

  • Tomatoes - 5 kg.
  • Sour large apples (for example, Antonovka) - 2 pcs.
  • Coarsely ground black pepper - 1 tsp.
  • Cinnamon - on the tip of a knife.
  • Nutmeg - 0.5 teaspoon.
  • Honey - 1 tsp
  • Hot red pepper - 1 tsp without a slide.
  • Garlic - 1 head.
  • Vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking great condiment

Let's prepare the tomatoes - wash, clean from damaged places. Cut the tomatoes into large cubes. Remove the core from the apples with seeds and also cut them into cubes. Mix apples and tomatoes in a bowl. We put them on medium heat for 30 minutes (until the apples and tomatoes soften).

Grind the resulting mixture through a sieve and send back to the pan. Boil the tomato sauce for another 10 minutes. Add salt, black pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and hot red pepper to the brew. Mix thoroughly and leave to simmer for another 5 minutes. Then add honey, vinegar and garlic and boil for another 5 minutes.

Distribute the sauce in pre-sterilized jars. Let's roll them up. We put the jars with a lid down on the floor, covered with a towel, and cover everything from above with a blanket. Let's leave them like that overnight. In the morning we will clean it in the pantry or cellar.

Barbecue sauce

The last tomato sauce, the recipe of which we will describe in this article, is everyone's favorite

This world famous masterpiece was invented in North America, and his recipe has sold around the world. Not a single picnic in nature can do without his participation in the USA.

Barbecue tomato sauce is popular not only because of its unusual and bright taste, but also because of its versatility: it can be used as an addition to the main course and as a marinade for meat, poultry, fish or even vegetables.

Here is the classic recipe for this sauce, but you can change it according to your own taste and the products you have.

Ingredients:

  • Puree from fresh tomatoes - 1 kg.
  • Tomato paste - 200 g.
  • Large onion - 2 pcs.
  • Odorless vegetable oil - 0.3 cups.
  • Honey - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Grain mustard - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Granulated garlic - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Ground chili pepper - 1 tsp with a hill.
  • Worcestershire sauce - 30 ml.
  • Apple cider vinegar - 100 g.
  • and salt to taste.

Cooking process

Boil the tomato puree (without pits and skins) to evaporate all excess moisture. Cut the onions into small cubes and fry them in vegetable oil in a deep saucepan until transparent. Crush in the mortar. Send pepper, sugar and chili to the onion. Stir the mixture thoroughly.

Add honey to the pot and tomato paste. Stir again thoroughly and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the evaporated tomato puree to the mixture and simmer for 15-20 minutes over low heat.

Add vinegar and salt. Blend the mixture with a blender. Boil the sauce for another 20 minutes. Pour the finished product into sterilized jars and close them. Leave to cool on the floor under a blanket, lid upside down. After a day, put the jars in the cellar (if it is a cold season) or in the refrigerator.

Sauce Recipes

3 hours 15 minutes

70 kcal

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To diversify your stock of blanks for the winter, you can cook great amount sauces. They will enrich the body in winter with useful substances, vitamins, and will also remind you of the taste of summer. We offer to cook for the winter one of the options tomato sauce By simple recipe.

How to choose the right ingredients

In order for the tomato sauce prepared for the winter according to our simple recipe to remain just as tasty, you need to follow some rules when choosing ingredients:

  • Choose high quality tomatoes, they should be medium and fleshy, bright red in color. Watery tomatoes won't work for you.
  • Buy onion different types . It should have a pleasant, not harsh aroma. If it tastes too bitter, it will ruin your sauce.
  • Give preference small carrot. It should not have any spots, especially dark ones.
  • Buy large, with a pronounced smell, garlic.

Tomato sauce for the winter

Kitchen appliances and utensils

  • plate;
  • pot;
  • gauze;
  • pusher;
  • sieve;
  • soup plate;
  • spoon;
  • banks;
  • jar lids;
  • closing key.


Ingredients

Tomato juice 5 l
hot pepper 1 PC.
Carrot 1 PC.
Bulb 1 PC.
Dill 1 branch
parsley root 1 branch
bell pepper 1 PC.
Coriander 6 g
Seasoning "Hmeli-suneli" 6 g
Seasoning "Provencal herbs" 6 g
Bay leaf 3 pcs.
Garlic 5 cloves
Black pepper 20 peas
Sugar 200 ml
Salt 50 g
Vinegar 100 g
Starch 50 g

Step by step recipe

Before making the sauce prepare jars: wash them with soda and sterilize over steam or in the oven, boil the lids.


Your tomato sauce prepared for the winter classic recipe at home, ready!

Video recipe for tomato sauce for the winter

In this video, you can watch the sequence of all stages and see the result that you get.

Tomato sauce with apples

  • Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
  • Servings: 15.

Kitchen appliances and utensils

  • plate;
  • pot;
  • blender;
  • soup plate;
  • spoon;
  • garlic press;
  • banks;
  • covers;
  • closing key.

Ingredients

Step by step recipe

Recipe for the winter tomato sauce with apples very simple, but at the same time rich and tasty.


Video recipe for making tomato sauce with apples

In this video, you can see how to cook the sauce correctly, in what order to add the ingredients and how it should turn out in the end result.

spicy tomato sauce

  • Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
  • Servings: 25.

Kitchen appliances and utensils

  • plate;
  • meat grinder;
  • pot;
  • board;
  • spoon;
  • garlic press;
  • banks;
  • seaming key;
  • metal spoon;
  • covers.

Ingredients

Step by step recipe


A simple recipe for spicy tomato sauce prepared for the winter is best stored at room temperature.

Video recipe for making spicy tomato sauce

In this video you can see how to cook the sauce, how to distribute it in jars and how it should look in the end.

What to add to the sauce for flavor

Your sauce should be very rich, bright in color and with a pleasant smell. In order for it to have a special taste, most often they add to it:

  • garlic;
  • cilantro;
  • oregano;
  • parsley;
  • apples;
  • ginger;
  • hot peppers;
  • nutmeg.

With a very pleasant aroma and rich taste, it turns out tomato sauce with basil with a simple recipe. To prepare it, you need only one bunch of basil, a clove of garlic, half a kilogram of tomatoes, olive oil and spices to taste.

What is tomato sauce served with?

Tomato sauce is pretty versatile. It can be served with absolutely different dishes. For example:

  • Fish and meat dishes go very well with a delicate tomato sauce, with the addition of flour, parsley, broth, onions and carrots. You can also serve meat with a sweet sauce, try it as an option.
  • The sauce goes well with roasted vegetables.
  • Pasta, for example, pasta, should be supplemented with some kind of sauce, and tomato sauce is best. And, for example, it is well suited for climbing.
  • Soup can be made from this sauce.
  • To make the sauce homogeneous, peel the tomatoes from skins.
  • If you want a homogeneous mixture, prepare tomato sauce for the winter, passing all the ingredients through meat grinder.
  • To make the sauce bright, choose homemade vegetables with rich color.

Other cooking options

  • Can cook tomato sauce without vinegar if it was not at hand at the right time.
  • by the most simple option is winterized tomato sauce without sterilization.
  • More unusual option - sauce with capers.

In the event that you do not like tomatoes, you can make a blank in the form.
With a more unusual taste, it can turn out. It can be served with fish and meat.

Which tomato sauce recipe did you like the most? What dishes did you serve it with? What ingredients would you recommend adding? You can tell about all this in the comments.

Tomato sauce for the winter is a great addition to meat and fish dishes. There is a tomato sauce made only from tomatoes and spices, but many recipes have additional ingredients that make the sauce unusual. Below are the best canned tomato sauce recipes.

A simple recipe for making tomato sauce can be easily prepared at home. In winter, this sauce is suitable for the main dish, but if desired, it can be used as the basis for more complex recipes.

Photo of homemade tomato sauce for the winter

Ingredients:

  • Tomatoes - 3 kg;
  • Garlic - 3-4 large teeth;
  • Black pepper in grains - 5-6 pcs.;
  • Carnation - 5-6 pcs.;
  • Sugar - 0.2 kg;
  • Salt - 1.5 tbsp. l;
  • Vinegar essence - 3 tsp;
  • Ground cinnamon - on the tip of a knife.

Cooking

  1. Cut the tomatoes into slices, immerse in a large container and boil for 5-10 minutes to become soft. The peel can be removed beforehand, but it will not greatly interfere with the sauce and even make it more useful, because it is in the peel that most of the vitamins are contained.

Interesting!

While cooking the tomato sauce, it is very important to stir the mixture with a wooden spoon, otherwise it may burn.

  1. After the tomatoes have boiled, they are ground through a sieve to get a homogeneous mass. Then the tomato is poured into the same container where it was boiled, salt, sugar are poured and boiled down 2 times. It usually takes 20 minutes in time.
  2. Cloves and peppercorns are placed in a gauze bag and immersed in a tomato while it is boiled down. Also in the total mass you need to pour cinnamon.
  3. When the sauce has boiled down, a bag of pepper and cloves is taken out, and vinegar essence is added to the sauce.
  4. The canning jars are sterilized and then the finished sauce is poured into them until it has time to cool.

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Tomato sauce without sterilization is rarely made, but the preparation for tomato sauce may not be sterilized. simple and quick recipe tomato sauce for the winter is described below.

Photo of tomato sauce

Ingredients:

  • Tomatoes - 3 kg;
  • Salt - 1 tsp

Cooking

  1. Tomatoes are sorted out - all spoiled fruits are thrown away, tails are removed, if any, and then the fruits are washed several times. To do this, you can use a shower or several basins of water.
  2. Clean tomatoes are dried a little so that the water is glass, then cut into halves, quarters and placed in a food processor. Instead of a combine, you can use a blender, meat grinder, sieve, but this usually takes more time. Tomatoes must be thoroughly chopped to get something like tomato puree.
  3. Chopped tomatoes are poured into a large stainless steel or enameled container, and then salted. Tomato puree is brought to a boil and then simmered over low heat for 45 minutes.
  4. Everything, the preparation for the sauce is ready, it can be poured into jars and rolled up. It is advisable to wash the jars before laundry soap or baking soda.

In winter, opening such a jar, you can make absolutely any sauce due to the fact that it contains only tomatoes and a little salt. tomato preparation simply pour into a saucepan, add seasonings, herbs, additional vegetables, other ingredients and boil for as long as necessary.

Tomato sauce can have a pleasant sweetness, sourness, but often to meat dishes They serve the spicy sauce. The degree of spiciness is adjusted during cooking. Here, as they say, for an amateur.

Photo of spicy tomato chili sauce

Ingredients:

  • Tomatoes - 4 kg;
  • Garlic - 30 teeth;
  • Chile - 3-5 pieces;
  • Salt - 40 g;
  • Vinegar 9% - 70 ml;
  • Black ground pepper - to taste;
  • Sugar - to taste.

Cooking

  1. Garlic is peeled and placed in a blender bowl. The tail is cut off from the chili, if you want a less burning taste, you can remove the seeds. It must be cut into pieces and also added to the bowl with garlic. Both ingredients are ground to a homogeneous mass.
  2. Now the tomatoes are crushed. First they are washed, then cut into pieces (small) and crushed. To do this, you can use a blender or a meat grinder - whatever you like. And when the tomatoes are mashed, garlic and chili are added to them and mixed well.
  3. Next, add salt and mix again.
  4. The sauce is poured into a container for cooking and brought to a boil over low heat. Now the sauce is reduced by 2 times. Although here a lot depends on what density is needed. In any case, the sauce is constantly stirred and tasted so that the taste is good. If necessary, add pepper, salt. Boiling may take 20-40 minutes - it depends on many factors (the strength of the fire, the type of stove, the juiciness of the tomatoes, the desired consistency).
  5. When the sauce has boiled down, pour in the vinegar, stir, try. If necessary, you can add salt, pepper, vinegar or sugar - the main thing is that you like the taste.
  6. The prepared sauce is poured into sterilized, hot jars until it begins to cool, and sealed with lids.
  7. Containers with tomato sauce are turned upside down and covered with a warm blanket for a day. Then you can transfer the conservation to the pantry to the rest of the blanks.

This tomato sauce recipe is usually adjusted during cooking. The proportions of the ingredients depend on personal preference. So, to get a hot sauce, you can put 5 chili pods along with seeds, and if you need a light spicy, then 3 pods without seeds are added. In addition, the amount of salt may vary from hostess. Sugar and black pepper are added as desired and in such quantity that the taste balance is not disturbed.

Spicy tomato sauce can turn a simple dish into a culinary masterpiece. But in order for the sauce to turn out, you need to choose the right ingredients and follow the cooking instructions exactly.

Photo of homemade tomato sauce with celery

Ingredients:

  • Tomatoes - 4.5 kg;
  • Carrots - 2 medium;
  • Onion - 1 pc.;
  • Garlic - 1 head;
  • Celery stalk - 2 pcs.;
  • Basil leaves - 1 bunch;
  • Olive oil - 50 ml;
  • Salt - 30 g.

Cooking

  1. The stalk of celery is washed under running water and cut into cubes. Peeled onions, carrots are chopped in the same way, and garlic is squeezed out through a crusher.
  2. Wash the tomatoes, cut into slices. The skin does not need to be removed.
  3. Olive oil is heated in a large frying pan. Chopped vegetables are laid out in it and fried over low heat for 5 minutes.

Interesting!

To diversify the taste of the sauce, you can add unusual spices to it, some favorite herbs.

  1. After 5 minutes, tomatoes, salt are added to the pan, and vegetables are stewed for 60 minutes.
  2. Now it is necessary to make stewed pieces vegetables became a homogeneous sauce. To do this, the fire is turned off under the pan, and the resulting mass is ground through a sieve. Instead of a sieve, you can also use a food processor or blender.
  3. The homogeneous, mixed mass is again poured into the pan, a small fire is turned on and the sauce is boiled down for about 2 hours.
  4. Jars for this sauce must be sterilized in advance. Then, in still hot containers, lay out a few leaves of basil and distribute the sauce. Banks can be immediately corked, turned over and wrapped to cool down for a day.

For the winter, tomato sauce is often closed at home, as it is natural and does not contain preservatives and other chemicals. It is best to make it from fresh tomatoes - summer is suitable for such preservation. the best way. There are a lot of recipes for tomato sauce, so the choice is rich. Over time, you can choose the most the best option, which is liked by all relatives and is suitable for family dishes.