tomato sauce from tomatoes?

[Beetlemania]

I'd love to make an authentic Italian sauce from tomatoes in skin, rather than a can. Everything I've seen starts with either tomato paste or sauce, and that's just crazy!

Please help!

[FlwrPwer]

I make authentic sauce from tomatoes in a can. I buy progresso skinned whole plum-shaped tomatoes. I then take it from there. I blend up the whole tomatoes....You cant make sauce with the skin. The choice, buy canned skinless tomatoes or skin the tomatoes yourself.

[Beetlemania]

I've got the skinning part down. You just drop them in boiling water for a few minutes, then into an ice bath. The skin just falls off almost.

They still have the seeds in when you make it?

[FineExampl]

I tend to agree with Karen here Jacob.
Have you ever had to reduce tomatos to a puree? It's a long laborious process. First you have to boil them to loosen the skin. Than you flash em in ice water to peel them. Than you have to stew them for hours.

Before you go nuts trying to make your own fresh from whole raw toamto sauce, i HIGHLY recommend you look up the recipe i posted in this very forum a while back when the org switched to the new format. My recipe starts with canned crushed tomatoes, which is crushed stewed tomatos. My sauce can be emade with or without tomato paste. Tomato paste btw is just REALLY concentrated tomato pulp so dont let it turn you away. It is used to add a richer tomato flavor as well as thicken the sauce. It's good stuff in all honesty.

If you try my sauce recipe and don't like it, i will seek out the ultimate raw tomato sauce for you.

[Beetlemania]

That's what I get for just checking the titles, and not doing a search of recipes.

Thanks, John! I shall try it shortly!

[FineExampl]

Let me know how you like it. I still have some containers or my 6hr sauce in the freezer just itching to come out.

[Beetlemania]

John, I never did let you know what I thought of this!

Let's put it this way, I've made it a few times now. Fan-freaking-tastic! And I was indeed able to substitute fresh tomatoes for the canned variety, just had to boil them for a little bit to peel them easily. Next time, though, I think I'll run them through a food processor/blender to get them lumpless.

Thanks for a great recipe! It's in my drawer (when it's not on the counter)!