Easy Homemade Tomato Soup, Sauce and Ketchup

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I’m on a mission to can as much tomato product as I can this season. I’ve been buying 40lbs of organic canning tomatoes each week for that purpose and am slowly building up a good stash of spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, tomato soup, and ketchup.
All the canning recipes I found required peeling and de-seeding using more effort and equipment than I had to spare. My internal whine kicked in: “Do I haaaaaave toooooo?”
I finally came across this post at Heavenly Homemakers that had a good tomato sauce recipe. No peeling or deseeding necessary.
Inspiration!!!
Tomato Soup, Sauce, Spaghetti Sauce, and Paste:
- Cut and blend tomatoes. I’ve been adding in some large rounds of giant zucchini from my parents’ place too.
- Fill up a big stockpot with the mix.
- Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat, add any spices desired, and simmer until desired consistency.
- Soup – an hour or more
- Sauce – three or more hours (add garlic, onion, salt and pepper, etc. to make it spaghetti sauce)
- Paste – five or more hours (I didn’t go that far)
- Pour hot into cleaned quart jars, top with rings and hot lids, and process in a pressure canner at 11 lbs for 25 minutes. See pickyourown.org for specifics on canning procedures and processing time/settings.
Homemade Ketchup:
- Make a big batch tomato sauce as indicated above
- In a blender, combine two cups apple cider vinegar, a small or medium onion, a clove of garlic, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 tsp cayenne pepper, and a tsp of celery seed.
- Add vinegar mix to tomato sauce in a large crock pot and cook on high for 4-6 hours (lid off)
- Process the same as you would tomato sauce
That’s it! It’s been pretty easy and fun, and tastes great.
Hi Tauna,
I’m glad you found an easier recipe to use…I hate peeling and de-seeding tomatoes and my other pet hate is charring and skinning capsicums.
Your stash of supplies is looking good.
Have a good week
Barb from Australia
No peeling and de-seeding? Sold!
I love home made tomato pasta sauce better if the tomatoes are growing in your garden and super fresh I will give a go if I get a good crop this year.
Merle…