Description
Easily preserve all your home grown tomatoes by making a freezable tomato paste (in glass jars, no BPA!)
Ingredients
- Any type of tomato you have on hand
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Drizzle a pan with olive oil (use the code STEWARDSHIP for 10% off at that site!).
- Start cutting the tomatoes into chunks, right into the pan, as many as can fit! Add other veggies, if desired. Sprinkle with herbs (fresh or dried – Italian seasoning is good), about a tsp of salt (Use the code kitchenstewardship for 15% off of your first purchase) and drizzle again with olive oil.
- Roast tomatoes for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally, until they are cooked down and thickened.
- Remove pan from oven and pour tomatoes into the food mill, with a clean pot underneath to catch the sauce. Crank the food mill until all the seeds and skins are separated from the sauce.
- At this point, you have a lovely tomato sauce that you could freeze. If you want to make paste, though, you will need to cook down the sauce even more.
- Simmer the sauce until it reaches the desired consistency (you probably won’t get it as thick as commercial tomato paste). Stir occasionally to keep the bottom from burning.
- When the paste is ready, allow it to cool. Spoon cooled paste into ice cube trays, freeze until firm, them transfer to a freezer container.