Basic Italian Tomato Sauce for Canning

[Sorellina]

Ciao all-

This is a very basic sauce. I make this when my life is overflowing in fresh tomatoes. It's not cooked down very long at all so if you want a thicker sauce, you can adapt it. For lasagna sauce, you'll want to add tomato paste to make it yet thicker, but you can do that very easily after the fact: pop a few of the jars from this recipe and add tomato paste to that, cook down to desired consistency, add mushrooms and/or meat to it as you see fit.

8 C. Prepared tomato puree, about 5 lbs
2/3 C. Finely chopped onion
2/3 C. Finely chopped celery
1/2 C. Finely chopped carrot
2 Cloves garlic, minced
4 Tbsp. Lemon juice
2 Tsp. Salt
1/2 Tsp. Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 Tsp. Red pepper flakes

 

[Pepperfreak]

Sounds great and it's been printed off for future use.

 

[chicagofire]

Thank you so much

 

[pepperfever]

Great recipe Sorellina, basic is good, leaves plenty of room to add when you are going to use it. Saved to my canning recipes list. Thanks for posting.

 

[PhatManDerek]

Ciao all-

This is a very basic sauce. I make this when my life is overflowing in fresh tomatoes. It's not cooked down very long at all so if you want a thicker sauce, you can adapt it. For lasagna sauce, you'll want to add tomato paste to make it yet thicker, but you can do that very easily after the fact: pop a few of the jars from this recipe and add tomato paste to that, cook down to desired consistency, add mushrooms and/or meat to it as you see fit.

8 C. Prepared tomato puree, about 5 lbs
2/3 C. Finely chopped onion
2/3 C. Finely chopped celery
1/2 C. Finely chopped carrot
2 Cloves garlic, minced
4 Tbsp. Lemon juice
2 Tsp. Salt
1/2 Tsp. Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 Tsp. Red pepper flakes

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Can you use this for Pizza sauce? Or even spaghetti sauce?

I would not use a miropoix sauce for pizza! Bolognese, yes.

 

[moyboy]

That sounds great....

I think I will be doing something like this in the near future and freezing it in small batches....

 

[Sorellina]

Ciao Derek-

I have recipes for both lasagna sauce and pizza sauce which are much thicker. This sauce is cooked rather quickly and can be adapted to whatever your needs are. I make it this way for versatility's sake, but I have many other sauces that I make for specific purposes.