An EASY way to make homemade TOMATO PASTE!
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Do you not core the tomatoes first?
That is brilliant! Will now have to wait until next year as I have already processed all my toms, but will definitely be doing this. Thank you.
While I have no access to paste tomatoes, I thoroughly enjoyed your video. You have a very clear way of explaining your method and the results looked wonderful! Thank you for posting this.
I make pucks of garlic like this too
what are paste tomatoes
Using a dehydrator is so much easier! I just throw the cut tomatoes on the dehydrator until they are just moist/pastey like. Then blend them up with salt or what ever else you want to add. This way makes it so you can still do other things and not worry about burning your tomatoes. Works wonderful.
Best recipe ever! Thank you!
This is GREAT!
We were making sauce our first year. We ended up with a bunch of skin and seed solids that didn’t go into our sauce. We took all that pulpy stuff and loaded it into our dehydrator with some basil leaves and dehydrated it until crispy. Then we ground that into a fine powder.
This powder we use to thicken soups and sauces as well as adding it into a bit of water for tomato paste. The powder is shelf stable and sits in a jar in the cabinet like any other spice.
I will have to try this method though as it seems to probably add much more flavor from a “roasted” tomato.
This is GREAT! Thank you!
Nice, thanks for the recipe
Holy crap, that is my moms lasagna pan. I always thought is was an old refrigerator evaporator pan that was repurposed. I never saw another on. LOL
mate you are a freaking legend, that's actually 2 recipes in one, instead of using an enamel pan and backing it that would make a great pasta sauce
During the first cooking stage in the pot, how high is that temp?
What are paste tomatoes?
Good instructions but way too much work.
You have to really have a lot of time on your hands to do this. I don't see how homemade is better than the Cento or DeCecco canned tomato paste
Thank you for the recipe. You shouldn't use metal utensils in an enamel pan/pot though.
can we use a dehydrator instead of the oven?
Have you compared your paste to a freeze dried version for flavor?
You can speed up the cooking by freezing those tomatoes as they ripen and when you are ready to make paste or sauce the pink'ish clean liquid will be in the bag when defrosted. Not much squeezing will be needed. Be sure to set the frozen bags in a cooler and expect condensation to build around the outside of what ever you use to defrost the tomato bags in. Place in the tub or large sink till defrosted which can take 1 to 3 days depending on the size of the batch frozen. This was a game changer for me years ago. I will never not freeze my sauce tomatoes again and be in a hurry to can or make paste in the heat of the summer.
I think I want to try this with my tomato soup base!
I like that you left the skins in.
I just cant ve bothered to stop what im doing every 20-30 minutes, come indoors and stir it. I cut the tomatoes in half, roast them in the oven (checking every 2hrs or so). Then i can put them through a tomato mill and can as roast tomato puree, or put it in the slow cooker and reduce it (checking every 2hrs or so)
Throwing the skins out is throwing the natural paste out.
My mom would scrape the paste off of the skins.
Great job. Thank you
I like to can mine in 4oz jars. Just about the right size for us, no potential for freezer burn, and doesn't take up any precious freezer space. I need another freezer, lol. As someone else mentioned, it really does help to strain off or ladle off the excess liquid that is initially released, to make the time go a lot faster. I can that as well. Nothing goes to waste. Your tomato paste looked really good. Thanks for sharing.
my grandmother cooked the tomatoes down until she could roll the pulp into a ball. Then she put them on a screen to sun dry. then she hung them in the basement in a bag. when she made pasta, she would just mix some of the tomato balls with water.
Awesome thank you.