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Bright Red Tomato Sauce
Bright Red Tomato Sauce
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Bright Red Tomato Sauce

4.5
15 mins
2 hours
Easy
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Got heaps of tomatoes ripening right now? This sauce is perfect for making when tomatoes are abundant. Use the sauce for pasta, lasagne or spreading on pizza. it can also be used in place of commercial tomato sauce.

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  • Ingredients
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Ingredients

  • 6 kg ripe red tomatoes
  • 4 apples
  • 2 onions
  • 2 Tbsp allspice
  • 2 cloves garlic (1 tsp crushed)
  • 1 ½ kg Chelsea White Sugar
  • ¼ cup salt
  • ground black pepper
  • 1 litre malt vinegar

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White Sugar

White Sugar

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Method

Wash and chop tomatoes and apples, skins included. Chop onions. Tie allspice and garlic in a muslin bag. Boil all ingredients together slowly for two hours, stirring frequently. When cool, discard muslin bag and put sauce through a sieve, or use a food processor. Bottle in warm, sterilised bottles when cool.
Refrigerate the sauce and use it within a week or freeze it for up to 3 months. Properly sterilised canned tomato sauce can be stored in the pantry for at least 1 year.
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