The garden is in full bloom. Wednesday night, we went out and picked roughly 90 pounds of tomatoes. We have about 8 plants, each of a different variety.
We have used tomatoes to make large batches of salsa, tomato soup and even ketchup before, but we wanted to try something new, so we decided to make up a batch of spaghetti sauce. I found a recipe that looked fairly simple and went for it:
Instant Pot Quick and Easy Spaghetti Sauce
We used three Instant pots to make the process move faster. We ended up using about 60 pounds of tomatoes which created 36 quarts of sauce. This took about 24-man hours. We accomplished that by running 4 batched through the two 6qt Instant pots (8 total) and 3 batched through the 8qt Instant pot.
Here is a break down of what we did:
- Sautéed oil, garlic & onions
- Added chopped carrots, celery, tomatoes, and spices
- After they had cooked a few minutes, pressure cook about half an hour
- Using an immersion blender, puree contents of pot
- Mix contents of all Instant pots together and simmer for several hours in large pot to thicken
- Pressure can in quart jars on the back porch
We had to simmer and thicken our sauce because we used a variety of tomato breeds. If we would have just used Roma tomatoes (lower water content), we could have limited the time for reduction.
Tonight, we will make spaghetti with our new sauce, ground meat off the farm and try it out!
PS: For more info on the basics of canning check out an earlier blog
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