Homemade Spicy Tomato Sauce
A good tomato sauce is the basis for so many dishes such as pizza, pasta, casseroles, chicken etc. Here is a delicious homemade spicy tomato sauce recipe.
A basic tomato sauce is not hard to make. Unlike a lot of recipes floating around the internet this recipe contains fresh tomatoes. If you do not like spicy just leave out the chili pepper.
Making the Sauce
The sauce starts with cooking the onion slowly along with chili pepper and garlic, until translucent, then adding the tomatoes and simmering it on low-heat so that the flavor continues to build.
Serving the Tomato Sauce
- 🍅 Chunky Sauce: you can use tje sauce as it is after cooling it down
- 🍅 Smooth Sauce: Let the sauce cool down and then blend in the blender
Storing the Tomato Sauce
Let the sauce cool, then transfer it into freezer containers or freezer bags. Sauce can be kept frozen for at least three months
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- 45 mins
- Makes 1 cup
- Easy
Ingredients
| 2 tablespoons olive oil | |
| 1 onion, chopped | |
| 4 cloves garlic | |
| 5 tomatoes | |
| 1 tablespoon tomato paste | |
| 1 bay leaf | |
| 1 teaspoon dried parsley | |
| 1 green chile pepper, chopped | |
| salt, to taste | |
| freshly ground pepper, to taste |
Steps
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20 sec
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2 mins
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Done
10 mins
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Done
30 mins
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Done
10 mins
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20 sec
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Cook Notes
- Use canned tomatoes instead of fresh to save time.
- Make sure to scrape the seeds out of the chili pepper to make it less spicy
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This sounds amazing. It would make a great pizza sauce. YUM!
ReplyDeleteThis tomato sauce looks so thick and creamy - perfect for using up all the home grown tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteThis tomato sauce was super easy to make and turned out great! I won't be going back to store bought again!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds so delicious. Plus I love how easy it is and that there's no sugar!
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