Pantry Friendly Tomato Sauce Recipes

TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• In 2 (13 by 9-inch) pans place tomato halves cut side up. Sprinkle with oil, salt and pepper, onion, garlic, and herbs. Bake tomatoes for 2 hours. Check the tomatoes after 1 hour and turn down the heat if they seem to be cooking too quickly. Then turn the oven to 400 degrees and bake another 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and process tomatoes through a food mill on medium dye setting over a small saucepan. Discard skins. Add white wine, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and cook for 5 minutes.

PANTRY FRIENDLY TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat, add carrots, onion, celery, garlic, salt & pepper and saute until until tender.
• Strain tomatoes over a wide saucepan to reserve liquid.
• Add vinegar, wine, sugar, and herbs to reserved liquid from the tomatoes and reduce until a loose syrupy consistency.
• Seed the tomatoes and add to sauteed veggies, continue cooking until all the liquid in the pot has evaporated, and the vegetables are tender and just starting to fall apart. Remove from heat.
• Combine tomato "syrup" and the sauteed vegetables, and let sit for a few minutes to let the flavors mingle.
• Using a stick blender, countertop blender, or food processor, blend to your desired consistency.
• Note: the sauce left as-is is great as a Ragout style, medium blend is great substitue for ordinary marinara sauce, and a fine blend can be used as pizza sauce.