One Magical Sauce for Pasta, Pizza, Shakshuka & Olive Oil Dishes | Prepare Today, Use All Winter
Learn how to make the ultimate homemade tomato sauce – perfect for pasta, pizza, shakshuka and olive oil dishes! 🍅 With fresh tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and spices, this recipe shows you how to blanch, peel, cook and store tomato sauce for winter. Prepare now and enjoy delicious meals all winter long!

Tomato Sauce
1 kg plum, Roma tomatoes
3 tablespoons olive oil
2,5 cloves garlic, finely chopped or smashed
½ heaping teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Chili peppers, optional
* Wash the tomatoes, then score the bottoms with a small cross cut. Place them in boiling water for 30–60 seconds, then transfer immediately to cold water. This will allow you to peel them easily.
* Peel the skins, cut the tomatoes in half, and remove the cores. Blend them in a food processor until smooth.
* In a large pot, heat the olive oil and sauté the garlic until fragrant. Add the blended tomatoes, salt, and sugar. If you like it spicy, add chili peppers as well.
* Simmer on low heat until the sauce thickens and reduces by at least one-third of its volume. Stir occasionally and skim off any foam.
* Once the sauce reaches the right consistency, stir in vinegar and black pepper, then boil for another 20 minutes.
* Transfer the hot sauce into sterilized jars. Clean the edge of the jar and seal tightly with sterilized lids. No need for boiling again if you are using vacuum-seal lids.
* Store in a cool, dark place. Your homemade tomato sauce is ready to brighten up your recipes all year round! You can use it in pasta, schnitzel, pizza, or countless other dishes.
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Hello lovelies people of the world. Welcome to Rafika’s kitchen. Today I came up with a recipe that will carry our summer, this beautiful weather into winter, its happiness and its gorgeous taste. On this channel we have made different sauces, pepper paste, jams from the summer to take them to winter. But today I came up with a magical sauce recipe. And this recipe you can use in your pastas immediately. Just boil your pasta and mix it well. It’s going to be gorgeous. Or you can use it with your meats and have a gorgeous recipe suddenly or your schnitels. Or you fry some veggies in your air fryer with a bit of yogurt. Put this sauce and it’s also going to be gorgeous. We have this cauliflower is you can use this recipe there as well. So it is this amazing thing in the jar. And I would like to take you step by step to how to make it. And if you’re ready, we can start. We start with these plum tomatoes. We call them egg tomatoes actually, but you can use ordinary tomatoes like this as well. The thing about tomatoes is when they are really ripe, they carry umami. What is umami? It’s the fifth taste. Brings every taste. Salty, sour, bitter, all those taste into more gorgeousness. So, as a basic sauce, tomato is the one that’s mostly loved in the world. What’s the difference of plum tomato from those brown ones? basic thing. If we cut them in half and look at inside, these plum tomatoes have less seeds, lot more meat. Whereas these round tomatoes are more watery. They are more juicy. It’s more pleasant to eat. But when you’re making pastes and sauces, even in the industry, they use these. So, first we cut a plus sign to the bottom of the tomatoes and put them into boiling water. Usually, they say it’s 10, 15 seconds and then put it into cold water. Then it’s very hard to peel because we’re going to eventually cook everything. Put them in for a minute, a minute and a half. The side starts to get out and put them into cold water. In here, I didn’t have a lot of ice, but I had these, we call them ice blocks. Cold makes them cooler easily. It’s easy to take the skin off the tomatoes. Peel the tomatoes this way. And then cut it in half. But actually, when cutting in half, we don’t cut it in half. We cut a little above from the standpoint because these tomatoes are more industrialized. The way they industrialize it is they make sure that they don’t fall from the plant. So they make this inside rather deep like this. This side goes really really deep. It’s not pleasant to eat. So we have to cut that part out. We put it into the blender to make it total puree. Then for each kilo of tomatoes, 3 tablespoon of olive oil. For each kilo of tomatoes, I use 2 and 1/2 cloves of garlic. Finely dice it. Then I put the garlic in and then let it fry a bit. After I get the smell of the garlic, which is really gorgeous, I put the tomato. You have to be really fast otherwise the garlic will start to go brown and the taste dies away. So we don’t want that. We immediately put the tomato puree. Then a bit of salt, a bit of sugar to balance the acidity. And I want some spice. So I had these dried red peppers. You can use any kind of red pepper of your choice, whatever you can find. But preferably don’t use the red flake pepper. After one/ird of the water gets evaporated and the color starts to brighten a bit, it’s time to add the vinegar. The vinegar helps to balance its acidity and instead of having a sour taste of the whole sauce, we get a more balanced taste in the sauce. We let it cook for another like 20 to 25 minutes. Then it’s ready to be jarred. The jar, put it into the hot water or if you have the 70° C dishwasher, you can use that. Take them out of that. Put the sauce. Make sure that the sides do not get dirty. The lids also have to be sterilized. Close the lid really fast and let it cool. You can cool it under running water if you like. From hot to cold. If it goes really fast, the lids will be closed much better. So, basically that’s the sauce. How are we going to use the sauce in a pasta? Boil the pasta. Reserve some of the water. Mix it well. In a pan, put the sauce in and then put the pasta in. Add a bit of the water of the pasta. Voila. you get this gorgeous tomato sauce pasta. You can add a bit of cheese and it will be a feast. Secondly, in a meat like a shinel, prepare a shinel, put the sauce at the bottom, put the shinsel in and then maybe a bit of cheese. Put it in the air fryer. It’s going to be gorgeous. You can add a bit of basil on top. Or you have some fried veggies, eggplants, yogurt on top, and the sauce. Voila. Again, so so so nice. For example, I gave different recipes through time while making olive oil dishes. Instead of using the tomato in the winter, just use this tomato sauce in the dishes. Let’s say barbuya the recipe here or fulier here. Two weeks ago, we gave the recipe of your lama. You can use this sauce instead of making it from scratch. So, it will help to so many things. What about the pizza? Huh? Okay. We also have this pizza that I thought about like having a small lavage. And we put the sauce in. We put the cheese, some meat, some corn, and a bit of red onions. Voila. We get the pizza under 5 minutes this way. And it’s gorgeous and very, very tasty. [Music] Crispy bottom, perfect pizza under 5 minutes. [Music] And everybody’s waiting. Please write down where would you use this sauce in a different way. Include those or some of the ideas that you get so that we’ll also get an idea. Hope you have enjoyed. If you have enjoyed, you know what to do. Subscribe to the channel, save the video, share it with your loved ones through WhatsApp at every media and also do the recipe and share it with your loved ones that way as well. Take care.

23 Comments

  1. Honestly, you are amazing! I’m following you from Amman, Jordan. I love you because you’re so talented, never boring, and always full of fresh and fun ideas. All your recipes look delicious. I might try this pizza recipe with some extra sauce additions, and also use it in stews like okra and beans. It even works great for Mexican food—just wonderful!

    Best of luck to you, dear Rafika.
    By the way, you mentioned something about “Iskandar” or a similar Turkish dish—could you please share that recipe? I’d also love to see more Turkish recipes from you, especially the traditional countryside ones. I really adore Turkey—its people, food, nature, and incredible history.

    Lots of love from Amman to wherever you are.

  2. Great tips! I do a lot of canning since I live in a great area for fruit. Now I can do tomato sauce too!

  3. Last year we canned about 200lbs of tomatoes, into sauce. We also did salsa, pizza sauce and a thing called Minnesota Mix (which we use a base for spaghetti sauce and chili.) I would also use your tomato sauce as a basis for soup either a lovely tomato soup, a minestrone or a beef and barley.

  4. Excellent start to my Saturday morning! Thanks Refika for the great recipe and ideas. Love that you are helping us transition from summer to autumn.

  5. Greetings from Georgia USA. I am doing tomatoes today actually and I noticed that you open kettle it instead of water bath or pressure canning it. I really want to try it your method. I love that you use the hot peppers. I love Arrabiata sauce so this is pretty cool thank you. I love love your channel.

  6. Thank you Refika. As always you give us a great lesson along with your recipe. I love learning from you and your team. And even though I just had dinner you're making me feel like eating again😅
    I imagine this would be a great sauce to add to some soup recipes to give more depth of flavour.