Italian Cooking Sauce Mix

Name: Italian Cooking Sauce Mix
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 pints
Ingredients: 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, pureed; 4 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce; 2 cups water; 2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste; 2 tablespoons instant minced onion; 2 tablespoons parsley flakes; 3 teaspoons salt; 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 4 teaspoons green pepper flakes; 1 -2 teaspoon instant minced garlic; 3 teaspoons sugar; 1 1/2 teaspoons italian seasoning

Submitted by PaulaG

"Never buy jar sauce again! This is easy to prepare and freezes well. Keep a pint or two in the freezer and you will be prepared. Use this sauce whenever the recipe calls for spaghetti sauce. Recipe comes from Make a Mix Cookery."

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photo by Leslie

Ready In:: 35mins
Ingredients:: 12
Yields:: 6 pints

ingredients

2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, pureed
4 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
2 cups water
2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
2 tablespoons instant minced onion
2 tablespoons parsley flakes
3 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons cornstarch
4 teaspoons green pepper flakes
1 -2 teaspoon instant minced garlic
3 teaspoons sugar
1 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons italian seasoning

directions

Combine all ingredients in large stockpot.
Simmer 15 minutes over medium-low heat; cool.
Pour into six 1-pint freezer containers, leaving 1/2 inch space at top.
Seal and label containers; freeze.
Use within 6 months.

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Reviews

This is so easy to do and tastes great. I'll do it again. No need to buy spaghetti sauce jar. And that way I can omit the salt for DH. I used 1 tsp of red pepper flakes. Thanks Paula. Made for Gimme 5 tag game

Boomette
Great recipe for canning...this will come in real handy on those nights that I just don't want to have to work to hard in the kitchen...just put on some groud beef, pull this out of the freezer and I will have wonderful homemade spaghetti and everyone will be impressed...it didn't come from a Jar!!!!

Jellyqueen
really good i liked this.dee

Dienia B.
Delicious! I made this tonight and froze three quartes of it right away. With the rest, I added ground beef to it and served it up over spaghetti with some garlic bread. It was the best sauce I have ever had. I'll never buy store bought again! Thanks for a keeper!

Leslie
This was very easy to make, and tasted great with pasta! I left out the green pepper flakes, but it was still very tasty! I still have pints of this left in the freezer for future use. We all enjoyed this, PaulaG. Thanks!

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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY

PaulaG

Hixson, Tennessee

I came to this site in March of 2004. It was then called Recipezaar. This site was the first on-line site that I ever joined. I first popped in 2003 while searching for a Peach Cobbler Recipe. In March of 2004, DH was having shoulder surgery and I was looking for a Split Pea Soup. Once again I found myself on Zaar as it came to be called. Over the years I hung out and learned from some of the best home cooks in the country, I posted over 700 recipes on the site, reviewed over 3500 recipes and posted over 3000 food photos. Over the next 10 years the site made many changes and in 2010 it was sold to to Food Network and became Food.com. Until last year we played games, talked and shared with one another. As a result of the community and the relationships I built I got to meet some wonderful people from all over the country. I also have a great number of friends that I have never meet face to face. Some of us still hang out at various places across the net. Zaar was more than a cooking community. It was an internet community of friendship. Life is an adventure ever changing.

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