Make Tomato puree at home
It's very easy to make your own tomato puree (passata) at home so that you can use it in many recipes all year around
Ingredients
- 2 kg Tomatoes 4.4 lbs
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Wash the tomatoes and cut them into quarters or eighths. depending on their size.
- Cook them in a large pot at medium heat with the sugar and salt, stirring frequently.
- Allow to simmer until the tomatoes have fallen apart and a sauce forms.
- Take off the heat and leave to cool.
- When cool, pass through a food-mill to remove the skins and most of the seeds.
- Place the passata in plastic containers and freeze, or bottle it.
Notes
The tomato passata can be kept in the fridge for up to 4 days or frozen for a few months.