If you can only put up tomatoes in one way, this is the way to go. Homemade tomato paste has an amazing flavor, and really adds richness & depth to recipes calling for tomato paste. 

Tomato Paste

This recipe scales up or down easily to use as many tomatoes as you want. I use ice cube trays to freeze individual 1-oz portions for use in recipes.

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 4 pound tomatoes cored & roughly chopped
• 6 clove garlic peeled & chopped
• 2 tablespoons oregano, dried
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• to taste black pepper
• 2 whole bay leaves, dried
• Olive oil

Method

 

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F
2. Cook ingredients on the stove top until softened
3. Puree softened ingredients (immersion blender works great for this)
4. Pour the tomato sauce into a roasting pan (non-stick is best, with straight sides)
5. Roast at 300 until it thickens, stirring periodically
6. When your spatula leaves a clear path when sweeping the bottom of the pan, it has reduced sufficiently
7. Pour into ice cube trays, freeze, then vacuum seal the cubes

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