Homemade Pizza Sauce

This may seem an odd time to post a canning recipe but I actually made Pizza Sauce quite recently. I will share a trick for  making the BEST pizza sauce; regardless of which recipe you follow.

 Here it is: I usually freeze my chopped tomato`s in large freezer bags(equivalent to an ice cream pail) before I make my pizza sauce. Here is why: When you thaw the tomato`s there will be a clear liquid that separates from the tomatoes. Discard most of this liquid and then proceed with your pizza sauce as usual. This results in a nice thick sauce without having to simmer it for hours. Plus this way you can save your pizza sauce making for a time when you don`t have all the other canning or garden work to do.

 

Susie`s Pizza Sauce:

2 gallons chopped tomatoes

4 onions,peeled and cut up

2 green peppers, cut up with seeds removed

1 jalapeno pepper, cut up with seeds removed

2-3 garlic cloves minced OR 2 tsp minced garlic in oil

2/3 cup olive oil

1/2 cup sugar

2 tbsp salt

3-4 cans(369 ml) tomato paste-depending on how thick your sauce is

2 tbsp parsley

2 tbsp chili powder

4 tbsp clubhouse Italiano (as pictured above)

2 tbsp clubhouse Roasted Red Pepper & Garlic

1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

 

Bring to boil the first 5 ingredients in a large pot and simmer for about an hour. At this point you can do 1 of 2 things. 1) Blend and return to pot. OR  2) put through a sieve (like the one pictured above) squeezing out all the liquid, and return the liquid to the pot. Blending it works and is easier but using the above sieve will eliminate the tomato seeds as well as skin. Add remaining ingredients(except Parmesan cheese) and simmer for another hour or until desired thickness . Add Parmesan cheese. Put into sterilised jars and seal.