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Crockpot breakfast

Make tomato sauce with this easy crockpot recipe. No peeling, seeding, coring, crockpot breakfast stove time is required. Then you can use, freeze, or can the sauce.

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Paste tomatoes usually cook down the fastest because they have less water content. For chunky tomato sauce: pick the tomato skins and cores out of the sauce as it cooks. For smooth tomato sauce: run the finished sauce through a food mill. Pour your finished tomato sauce into jars, taking care not to fill past the headspace line.

Modern tomatoes are not as acidic as they used to be, so this step is essential for safe canning. Water bath can pints for 35 minutes, quarts for 40 minutes. Refer to the National Center for Food Preservation to learn more about the current recommendations. Then, transfer it to freezer-safe jars or bags, and place them in the freezer. Use your sauce within one year, for the best quality. Thaw it in the fridge overnight, or speed up the process by thawing it in the microwave.

Do your tomatoes seem to trickle in from the garden? Just freeze them until you have enough to make sauce. They can go in the freezer whole, and don’t even have to be thawed before they go in the crockpot. This is also a good way to go if you’re short on time. Just freeze your tomatoes until you have time to devote to sauce-making. Prefer to make your tomato sauce on the stove? Here’s a step-by-step tutorial to take you through the process.

Have lots of tomatoes on your hands? Use some of them to make homemade tomato paste, tomato juice and salsa. Get daily tips and expert advice to help you take your cooking skills to the next level. We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, which will go in to effect on September 1, 2022. Serving up real food for real families! 5 SECRETS TO GETTING DINNER ON THE TABLEFAST!

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