If you can only put up tomatoes in one way, this is the way to go. Homemade tomato paste has an amazing flavor, and really adds richness & depth to recipes calling for tomato paste. 

Tomato Paste

This recipe scales up or down easily to use as many tomatoes as you want. I use ice cube trays to freeze individual 1-oz portions for use in recipes.

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Ingredients

  

• 4 lbs tomatoes cored & roughly chopped
• 6 cloves garlic peeled & chopped
• a few tablespoons dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• black pepper to taste
• 2 bay leaves
• Olive oil

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F
• Cook ingredients on the stove top until softened
• Puree softened ingredients (immersion blender works great for this)
• Pour the tomato sauce into a roasting pan (non-stick is best, with straight sides)
• Roast at 300 until it thickens, stirring periodically
• When your spatula leaves a clear path when sweeping the bottom of the pan, it has reduced sufficiently
• Pour into ice cube trays, freeze, then vacuum seal the cubes