Homemade tomato sauce for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make tomato sauce for winter? Prepare the products. Thoroughly wash the tomatoes, wipe them with a towel. Use a knife to remove all the damaged (if any). Cut the tomatoes into medium-sized pieces, removing the hard white streaks. Pass the pieces of tomatoes through a meat grinder.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel the onion from the husk, then, like tomatoes, cut into medium-sized pieces with a knife. Pass the onion through a meat grinder directly into the container to the tomatoes. Carefully transfer the resulting tomato-onion mass into a saucepan.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add bay leaf, clove bud and black pepper, so that when stewing these seasonings completely give their flavor and taste to tomato sauce. Put the pan with the contents on the fire. Bring the sauce to a boil, then turn down the heat. Cook it for 1 hour so that tomatoes and onions soften and it was easier to wipe them later. During this time, stir the sauce periodically so that it does not burn.

5. Step 4:

   

   Remove the bay leaf from the boiled tomato-onion mass. Rub the mass into a deep container through a sieve, thus separating the cake (there is not much left at the exit) and leaving the pepper and cloves, they will no longer be needed, since they have already given their flavor to the future sauce. Pour the tomato sauce with the pulp from a deep container back into the pan and return to the stove. Cook it for another 2 hours on the lowest heat. Make sure that the sauce does not burn.

6. Step 5:

   

   Also periodically do not forget to interfere with it. In the process of making the sauce, add granulated sugar and a little salt. Bring it from a liquid state to a thicker one. At the end of cooking, when the tomato sauce becomes thicker, pour in the vinegar, mix and taste the sauce. If something is missing, then add (sugar, salt, vinegar).

7. Step 6:

   

   Sterilize the jars (this must be done in advance). Place the boiling tomato sauce in the jars. Boil the lids in a ladle for a few minutes, then put them on top of the cans and close them tightly. Leave the jars with the sauce to cool, wrapped up with a blanket or blanket. Store the cooled sauce in the refrigerator.