Crushed Tomatoes

Make Your Own
Crushed Tomatoes

Making crushed tomatoes is so easy once you've tried it once you'll do it again, and again. And the flavor? Amazing!

Take a bowl of vine ripened tomatoes and a large pot filled 2 inches with water.
Cut a little "X" in the tomato on the side opposite of the stem side.
Place the tomatoes stem side down in the pot and steam for 5 minutes.
Let them cool

Now the fun part!

Take the tomatoes and peel off the skin. It should come off very easily.
Now squeeze the tomatoes so all the seeds come out.
Cut the top part of the tomato where the stem was to remove the tough portion of the core.
Now you can place the meat of the tomato in a blender.
Blend for the tomatoes for about a minute of two until you see a smooth texture.

Once you've blended the tomatoes, pour them into a pot and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat so the tomatoes simmer. You want to reduce the tomatoes water content by letting it steam off. This will leave you with a thicker consistency and full flavored tomato sauce base.

Above you can see step 1, 2 and 3 of how much the tomatoes reduced to a think, deep red pulp.