Homemade Tomato Sauce from Scratch 🍅 | Farm-Fresh Recipe Straight from Our Homestead Garden!

fresh tomatoes

🥗Healthier: canned tomatoes

💰Cheaper: canned tomatoes

Canned tomatoes are often more affordable and can be more convenient.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: vegetable oil

Vegetable oil is typically less expensive than olive oil.

Pick a variety of tomatoes, including Sun Golds, cherry reds, Cherokee purple, Better Boy, and Roma tomatoes.

Make an X on the bottom of the larger tomatoes to prepare them for blanching.

Roast cherry tomatoes in the oven to enhance their sweetness and flavor.

Blanch the larger tomatoes, peel off their skins, and crush them to break them down.

Caramelize salt pork in a pot until crispy to add flavor.

Add smashed garlic and chopped onions to the pot and sweat them down with the salt pork.

Add a mix of herbs to the pot and continue to sweat everything together.

Deglaze the pot with white wine and let it reduce to avoid a strong wine flavor.

Add the crushed tomatoes to the pot gradually, cooking on low heat for about two hours to allow flavors to develop.

Puree the sauce once the tomatoes have broken down and adjust flavors with sugar, salt, pepper, and tomato paste as needed.

Prepare for canning, noting that flavors will enhance during the canning process.

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