Sunday, August 24, 2008

Canned Pizza Sauce

Since I noticed a lot of pizza recipes I thought it would be good to add some homemade sauce to it. It is so nice to have some canned and use it whenever, I can mine in half pint jars and that is plenty for a couple of pizzas but I guess it depends upon how much you like. I will list two recipes below, one a really simple easy one and the other a little more homemade.

Very simple pizza sauce:
- 6lbs of fresh tomatoes
- 1 pouce MRS WAGES pizza sauce
- 5 T sugar

Wash tomatoes. Scald 3 minutes in boiling water. Dip into cold water. Cut out cores. Remove skins. Cut into halves or quarters and blend in blender or food processor to smooth consistency (puree).

Measure 5 pints of puree into a large saucepan, add pouch of MRS. WAGES Pizza Sauce Mix and granulated sugar. Mix well.

Bring sauce to a boil. Reduce heat to medium for 25 minutes. Stir frequently. Sauce is now ready to eat, or to can or freeze for future use. To freeze, pour into freezer containers, and store

Process 35 minutes in boiling water bath. Boiling water should cover jars by one inch.
(you can get this sauce in Wal-Mart)

Homemade pizza sauce:
- 5 lbs tomatoes
-2 cloves garlic mashed
-1 tsp rubbed oregano
-1/2 tsp black pepper
-1 tsp basil
-1 1/2 C. chopped onions
- 1 1/2 T olive oil
- 2 tsp salt
-2 tsp brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp chili paste or ground red pepper

Wash tomatoes. Scald 3 minutes in boiling water. Dip into cold water. Cut out cores. Remove skins. Cut into halves or quarters and blend in blender or food processor to smooth consistency (puree).

Run chopped onions through food proccessor

Simmer all ingredients together for 20-30 minutes

Pour into jars and process pints for 35 min.

Another good idea I read about was to make a ton of tomatoe paste to use for whatever and if you wanted to make pizza sauce add the ingredients to the canned tomato paste. Whatever works!

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