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Home-made Tomato Sauce
Home-made Tomato Sauce is a traditional Australian recipe for a classic lightly-spiced tomato sauce that is a key ingredient in many other recipes. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Australian version of: Home-made Tomato Sauce.
prep time
30 minutes
cook time
180 minutes
Total Time:
210 minutes
Makes:
1 jar
Rating: 
Tags : Sauce RecipesSpice RecipesAustralia Recipes
This is a key ingredient in many American, Australian and Caribbean recipes. But where this is not readily available commercially you can prepare your own. Indeed, I think the home-made version is vastly superior. This is the Australian version of tomato sauce.
Ingredients:
1 ½kg tomatoes, coarsely chopped
120ml white wine vinegar
3 tsp salt
100g caster sugar
1 garlic clove, sliced thinly
1 tsp fresh ginger, grated
½ tsp whole cloves (or ¼ tsp ground cloves)
½ tsp ground allspice
3 tsp freshly-ground black pepper
⅛ tsp cayenne pepper
Method:
Combine all the ingredients in a large saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring frequently. Once boiling reduce to a simmer and cook gently, partly covered, for 2-3 hours, stirring occasionally.
You are looking for a fairly thick sauce-like consistency. If the sauce looks to be too watery continue to simmer uncovered until it reaches the preferred consistency.
Strain half of the mixture through a coarse sieve into a bowl, and then the other half. Use the back of a spoon to push the sauce through the sieve and extract as much liquid as possible. Discard any left-over solids.
Alternatively, blend the cooked sauce in a food processor or chopper but keep in mind that any sauce prepared like this will be spicier with more of a kick.
Pour the hot mixture into a medium-sized sterilised bottle and seal. Allow to cool then store in your refrigerator until needed. It will keep like this for a few weeks.
