Tangy Spaghetti Sauce For Canning Food

SPAGHETTI SAUCE FOR CANNING

Steps:

• Prepare tomatoes, washed, peeled and chopped. Reserve 4 cups and set aside.
• Prepare garlic. To roast garlic place garlic cloves on aluminum foil and drizzle with olive oil. wrap foil around garlic, sealing edges. Roast at 350 degrees for 30 minute or until tender. Cool and remove papery skins.
• Saute 3 cups chopped onion until translucent. Reserve 1 cup and set aside.
• Mix all ingredients except reserved tomatoes and onions. Cook tomato mixture over medium heat until heated through and then simmer for 30 minutes.
• Using a food processor or immersion blender and puree tomato mixture until smooth.
• Continue simmering for another hour to an hour and a half until tomato sauce thickens.
• Add reserved tomatoes and onion.
• Adjust seasonings to taste.
• Heat thoroughly.
• Ladle sauce into hot jars leaving a 1 inch headspace. Process pints 20 minutes and quarts 25 minutes at 10 lbs pressure in a steam-pressure canner.

HOMEMADE CANNED SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, bring 2 quarts water to a boil. Using a slotted spoon, place tomatoes, one at a time, in boiling water for 30-60 seconds. Remove each tomato and immediately plunge into ice water. Peel and quarter tomatoes; place in a stockpot., Pulse green peppers and onions in batches in a food processor until finely chopped; transfer to stockpot. Stir in next 11 ingredients. Add water to cover; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 4-5 hours, stirring occasionally., Discard bay leaves. Add 2 tablespoons lemon juice to each of 9 hot 1-qt. jars. Ladle hot mixture into jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace, if necessary, by adding hot mixture. Wipe rims. Center lids on jars; screw on bands until fingertip tight., Place jars into canner with simmering water, ensuring that they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil; process for 40 minutes. Remove jars and cool.

TANGY SPAGHETTI SAUCE FOR CANNING

Steps:

• Add all ingredients to stock pot.
• Heat to boiling.
• Reduce heat.
• Simmer, partially covered for 2 hours.
• Stir occasionally.
• After it has simmered, fill clean sterilized jars to within 1/2 inch of top of jar. Put on cap, screw the band finger tight.
• Process for 35 minutes for quart jars in a water bath.
• ** You can also freeze in quart size freezer bags.
• This sauce is great on any pasta dish.

TANGY PLUM SAUCE FOR CANNING

Steps:

• Use food processor for chopping plums and onions separately, if you have one.
• Place plums, sugar, vinegar and salt in a non-reactive saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 3 minutes, stirring now and then.
• Add all the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 40-45 minutes, or until thickened. Stir occasionally.
• Ladle into hot sterilized jars to within 1/2 inch of the top of the jar. Wipe jar edges with clean cloth and seal with heated lids.
• Process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes.

SPAGHETTI SAUCE FOR CANNING

Steps:

• You will need 12 to 14 quart size mason jars with lids and rings, sanatized and ready to go.
• Place olive oil, onions and peppers in a large pot and cook till tender.
• Wash tomatoes and cut in quarters.
• Place tomatoes into several large pots with a cup of water in each on and cook till soft.
• Once tomatoes are soft run them through a food mill and put juice into a large pot ( 20 qt works well).
• Once onions and peppers are soft drain he juice and oil from them and reserve liquid for future batches.
• Once the peppers and onions are drained place them in the juice from the tomatoes.
• Add the Garlic, Sugar, Salt, Oregano, and Basil. Bring to a boil and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, stirring every 15 minutes or so.
• Add the Tomatoe paste and cook for a half hour more.
• Place the jars in your oven on the lowest setting.
• Place the lids in a pan of simmering water.
• Fill jars one at a time and lid right away.
• Place the jars on a counter and cover with a towel and do not distuirb for 24 hours.
• Enjoy all year long.
• For those of you who don't want to use the above canning method you may use whatever method you like. This is the way we do it and we never have any problems.