Homemade thick tomato paste: you won't tell the difference from store-bought one

Tomato paste is a base for sauces and a great addition to soup or borscht. It is very easy to make at home, using only tomatoes and salt. Following the recommendations, the paste comes out thick and natural. It is also indistinguishable from store paste.

Food blogger Natalia Maruha (kulinarni_vykrutasy) shared a recipe for thick tomato paste on her Instagram page.

Ingredients:

• tomatoes
• vegetable oil
• salt

Method of preparation:

1. First you need to wash and cut tomatoes in quarters and transfer to a pot. Put on fire and boil until soft.

2. The resulting tomato mass should be beaten with a blender until homogeneous and strained through a sieve.

3. Put a colander over a deep bowl and cover it with gauze in four layers. Pour the tomato mass and leave it in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

4. When the allotted time passes, the tomato mass should be simmered with oil and salted from the moment 5 minutes after boiling.

5. Pour the tomato paste into jars, seal with lids, turn upside down and leave to cool completely. Done!

Also on OBOZREVATEL you can read the recipes:

• Tomatoes in their own juice
• Tomato juice
• Tomato juice with pulp