How To Make Basic Tomato Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

If you've been eyeing those gorgeous tomatoes at the farmers market and wondering what it might take to transform them into jars of delicious red sauce, wonder no more. Here is everything you need to know to make a moderate-sized batch of tomato sauce for your pantry (or freezer!), from picking the right tomatoes to packing the sauce into jars.

Fifteen pounds of fresh tomatoes. One afternoon. Eight pints of sauce. It's go time.

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