What a tomato sauce cannot be: sweet and sour, ideal for meat and poultry, sweet for potatoes, spicy with sour for pasta and other side dishes. However, high-quality sauce made from natural products is not cheap. Each hostess can correct the situation by preparing tomato sauce for the winter during the harvest season. Enough to learn the principles of cooking and find a good recipe.
How to cook tomato sauce
Good sauce is obtained only from good products - this is the main secret of tasty tomato sauce. It is necessary to cook it from ripe, selected tomatoes, and not from those products that are just a pity to throw, although they are not good for anything. For the sauce, they especially do not fit.
In addition to this secret, there are others.
- In order for the sauce to become thick, starch is added to them in industrial production. When preparing the sauce at home, you can also go this way - to save. But in fact, thick tomato sauce can be obtained without starch. To do this, just have to cook tomatoes a little longer, so that excess moisture is evaporated. Tomato sauce in this case will be less, but it will have a richer taste and aroma.
- To get a homogeneous mass, tomatoes will have to not only be passed through a meat grinder or a juicer, but also wiped through a sieve. Skins caught in the sauce will spoil its taste. But the pieces of pulp sauce does not harm, and give it extra charm.
- The taste and aroma of tomato sauce is largely dependent on additional ingredients and a bunch of seasonings. Therefore, to obtain a harmonious taste with a lack of culinary experience, it is better not to deviate from the recipe, but experienced housewives can experiment, increasing or decreasing the amount of spices, sugar and salt to their liking.
After reviewing the recommendations for making a delicious tomato sauce, you can choose a recipe and start cooking it for the winter.
Spicy tomato sauce with basil
Composition:
- tomatoes - 2 kg;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- basil (fresh) - 0, 2 kg;
- vegetable oil - 0, 2 l;
- sugar - 80 g;
- salt - 80 g.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare jars with a total capacity of 2 liters - approximately as much sauce will be released from the number of ingredients specified in the recipe.
- Wash the tomatoes, remove the stalks and make a cross-shaped incision on each and lower into boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
- Put the tomatoes in cool water, then peel them off and cut them into small pieces, put in a saucepan and boil for half an hour on low heat.
- Grind tomatoes by rubbing them through a sieve or using a blender.
- Wash, dry, chop basil. Put it in tomato puree.
- Bring to a boil and, stirring constantly to prevent the tomatoes from burning, cook for 20 minutes.
- In a thin stream, keep stirring, pour in the oil, squeeze the garlic, cook for 10 minutes.
- Pour salt and sugar, then, boiling for a couple of minutes, spread the sauce over the jars and seal them tightly.
Cool down the sauce at room temperature, after which it should be stored in a cool closet and cellar. Tomato sauce with basil is great for pasta.
Spicy Tomato Sauce
Composition:
- tomatoes - 5 kg;
- hot peppers - 0, 25 kg;
- hops-suneli - 20 g;
- garlic - 2 heads;
- coriander (ground) - 10 g;
- salt - 120 g;
- sugar - 180 g.
Method of preparation:
- Put the washed tomatoes in boiling water, boil in it for a couple of minutes, rinse in cold water and remove the skin.
- Cut the tomatoes into slices and put them in the pan, put them in the refrigerator overnight.
- The next day, drain the juice from the tomato slices, but do not pour it.
- Tomato slices in a saucepan, boil for half an hour, then cool and rub through a sieve.
- Return the tomato mass to the pan, pour in the previously drained juice, add salt, sugar, hop-suneli and coriander. Cook together until the sauce has the desired thickness.
- Peel the garlic, pass through the garlic and add to the tomato paste. Boil for another 5 minutes and spread on sterilized jars.
Spicy tomato sauce goes well with meat dishes. Despite the absence of vinegar in the composition, it is possible to store the sauce in winter at room temperature, provided that the banks are sealed.
Sweet Tomato Sauce with Apple
Composition:
- tomatoes - 2 kg;
- apples of sweet varieties - 0, 25 kg;
- red ground pepper - 1 g;
- ground cinnamon - 1 g;
- nutmeg - 1 g;
- honey - 5 g;
- black ground pepper - 1 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- Table vinegar (9%) - 10 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Pour the boiled water over the washed tomatoes and remove the skin.
- Cut in small pieces, put in a saucepan and simmer for half an hour over low heat.
- Wash the apples, remove the cores from them, cut them into slices and bake or boil until soft.
- Tomatoes cool and strain through a sieve.
- Separate the apples separately.
- Mix apples with tomato paste and boil together for 10 minutes.
- Put the honey, add the spices, cook, stirring until the sauce thickens.
- Squeeze the garlic into the sauce, pour in the vinegar, boil for another 5 minutes and lay on clean and dry jars that need to be sterilized beforehand.
Sweet and sour sauce goes well with vegetable casseroles and vegetable cutlets. With it you can simmer cabbage, using it instead of tomato paste. Such preparation for the winter is needed in any home.
Kuban Tomato Sauce
Composition:
- tomatoes - 3 kg;
- garlic - 8 cloves;
- onions - 0, 25 kg;
- cloves - 8 pcs .;
- allspice peas - 14 pcs .;
- black pepper peas - 10 pcs .;
- ground cinnamon - 3 g;
- apple cider vinegar (6%) - 40 ml;
- salt - 15 g;
- sugar - 60 g.
Method of preparation:
- Peel tomatoes from the skin, cut into small slices, fold into a saucepan with a thick bottom.
- Put on the fire and boil, not forgetting to stir, 15 minutes.
- While stewing tomatoes, cook the onions by cutting it into half rings.
- Put the onions to the tomatoes and cook with them for another 10 minutes.
- Chop garlic through a press. Put to the tomatoes, cook for another 2 minutes.
- Remove tomato paste from heat, cool. Shifting it in parts into the bowl of a blender, chop to a state of mashed potatoes, transfer to the same pan in which it was prepared first.
- Put it back on the fire and simmer until it thickens. All this time, the paste must be mixed so that it does not burn.
- Put the spices in a thin cloth bag and place the tomato paste on the bottom of the pan. Put salt and sugar in it.
- Boil, stirring, for another 10 minutes.
- Pour in the vinegar and, after boiling for a few more minutes, spread it over the sterilized jars.
- Roll the jars and put the lids down. Wrap a blanket for a day. In a day you can put it in a storage room for winter storage.
Tomato sauce prepared according to this recipe can be considered universal: it is suitable for all dishes.
Mexican Tomato Sauce
Composition:
- tomatoes - 1 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- Chilean pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- sweet pepper - 0, 4 kg;
- oregano - 5 g;
- garlic - 6 cloves;
- table vinegar (9%) - 50 ml;
- sugar - 20 g;
- salt - 2 g;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash chili peppers, cut them in half, remove the seeds, bake for 10 minutes, cool and peel off the skins.
- Wash Bulgarian pepper, remove seeds from it, cut it into small pieces.
- Finely chop the peeled onions.
- Peppers, onions and garlic mince.
- Wash the tomatoes and blanch for three minutes, cool them and remove the skin. Use a knife to remove the hard part near the stem.
- Cut the tomato flesh into pieces of about two centimeters.
- Mix with other vegetables and put in a saucepan with a thick bottom over a fire.
- Cook over low heat until the sauce has a uniform consistency. Pour in the oil with vinegar, add sugar, salt and oregano. Boil 5 minutes, you can lay out the banks. They must first be sterilized.
- Roll up the cans and after cooling down, put them in the pantry for the winter.
The sauce goes well with meat and fish dishes, beans and peas.
Tomato sauce with carrots
Composition:
- tomatoes - 3 kg;
- carrots - 0, 5 kg;
- sweet pepper - 1 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- parsley (fresh) - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 200 ml;
- table vinegar - 40 ml;
- sugar - 0, 25 kg;
- salt - 40 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, scrape vegetables from seeds, chop, mince or use a blender.
- Finely chop the washed and dried parsley.
- Place vegetables in a saucepan and simmer for 25 minutes after boiling.
- Add butter to vegetables, add chopped parsley, add sugar and salt, boil for another five minutes.
- Pour in the vinegar, cook for 2 minutes and spread the sauce over the jars. Banks before it needs to be sterilized.
- Close the cans with boiled metal lids, clean for the winter.
The sauce has a pleasant delicate flavor. It can be served as a sauce for potatoes or rice, can be used to prepare other dishes as a dressing.
Horseradish Tomato Sauce
Composition:
- tomatoes - 5 kg;
- horseradish root - 0, 5 kg;
- garlic - 0, 4 kg;
- salt - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Peel and chop the vegetables individually by turning them through the meat grinder.
- Tomatoes and horseradish combine, put in a saucepan and simmer for 25 minutes. All this time, the mass must be mixed well.
- Add garlic and salt, boil for another 5 minutes.
- Spread out on sterilized banks, cork.
The sauce will appeal to lovers of savory snacks.
Tomato Sauce with Plums
Composition:
- tomatoes - 2 kg;
- plums - 0, 5 kg;
- onions - 0, 25 kg;
- sugar - 0, 2 kg;
- salt - 20 g;
- red ground pepper - 5 g;
- table vinegar - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the tomatoes from the skin, sprinkling them before boiling water or boiling them whole in hot water for 5 minutes.
- Wash plums, remove bones from them.
- Remove the peel from the onion, cut it into small pieces.
- Crank tomatoes, onions and plums through the meat grinder.
- Put in a saucepan and cook for an hour, stirring occasionally to avoid burning.
- Pour salt, sugar, pepper, pour in vinegar and cook for another 5 minutes.
- Spread out on pre-sterilized banks.
- Roll up the cans. How cool, clean for the winter in the pantry.
The sauce has a tart sweet and sour taste, well suited to fried potatoes.
Preparing tomato sauce for the winter according to different recipes, you will always find what to serve for this or that dish. In addition, tomato sauce can be used as a dressing for cooking soups, stewed vegetables, meat, fish.
