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Pasta and sauce is one of the most popular dinners thanks to its quick and simple preparation time. What makes or break the meal is the quality and flavor of the sauce as everyone can make it a little different depending on personal preferences. Here is how you can make your own homemade tomato sauce and overtime start making it your own by changing the recipe and playing with the flavors you like the most.

The first thing you need to do is blanch ten tomatoes. Once they are ready, chop eight of them using your processor. Take the other two and dice them up and save off separately from the other eight. With your tomatoes ready it is time to make up your own homemade tomato sauce!

Take a large pot and heat at medium heat the following: one onion chopped, one green bell pepper chopped, four cloves of garlic, two tablespoons of olive oil and two tablespoons of butter. After about five minutes add in your eight blended tomatoes and stir in your other two diced tomatoes, a pinch of basil and a pinch of Italian seasonings.

Bring the pot to a boil. Once boiling lower the stove to low and cover the pot. Allow your tomato sauce to simmer for about two hours to allow everything to breakdown and work out the flavors. Once your two hours are up, add in two tablespoons of tomato paste and allow your sauce to simmer two more hours and then you are done!

Making your own homemade tomato sauce allows you to create a variety of flavors that meets your specific preferences. You can store your sauce in cans making the process more reasonable as you only need to do it now and again. Congrats, you now know how to make your own homemade tomato sauce!