Delicious tomato sauce with basil for the winter

4.09.2018 Winter blanks

According to our recipe with step-by-step photos, tomato sauce with basil for the winter is a delicious and fragrant seasoning of tomatoes. With it you can bake Margarita pizza, cook spaghetti, add to tomato soup or just spread on crispy toasted toast. Instead of fresh herbs, you can take dried basil. For the amount of tomatoes indicated in the recipe, one tablespoon of dried grass is needed.

It will take 40 minutes to cook, 0.5 l will be obtained from these ingredients.

Ingredients for Basil Sauce:

tomatoes - 1 kg;
green basil - 50 g;
granulated sugar - 45 g;
table salt - 15 g;
ground sweet paprika - 5 g.

The method of preparation of tomato sauce with basil

My red fleshy tomatoes, cut into four parts. For sauces, it is better to choose large fruits that can be crumpled, but without signs of rot and spoilage.

Put chopped tomatoes in a deep stewpan with a thick bottom. By the way, it is better to cut off the seals near the stalks if you are cooking from purchased tomatoes.

Close the stewpan with a lid, put on the stove, bring to a boil. Stew vegetables for 15-20 minutes until they are completely boiled.

Next, we wipe the boiled tomatoes through a fine sieve - we do not need pieces of the peel and tomato seeds.

We cut off green basil leaves from hard stems. We put the leaves in a pile, turn them into a roll. Then finely chop the roll of leaves - this is a very convenient way of slicing basil, which is recommended by Italians.

Add chopped greens to the stewpan, pour salt and granulated sugar.

On a small fire, bring the mass to a boil. Be careful - when boiling, thick paste "spits", so take care of your eyes and hands. So, boil the sauce over low heat without a lid for 15 minutes.

We can sterilize jars or bottles with a wide neck over steam. We pack boiling sauce in a container, close the lids.

We sterilize half-liter jars in boiling water for 10 minutes, liter 15 minutes. Cork tightly, put into storage in a dark, dry place, located away from central heating batteries. Such blanks are perfectly stored in an ordinary city apartment.