Why did it go bitter?? How do i Fix it ?? The ingredences are below?!
Why did it go bitter?? How do i Fix it ?? The ingredences are below?
PIZZA SAUCE:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/3 cup chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped garlic
1 (28 ounce) can roma tomatoes, with juice
2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 teaspoon chopped fresh oregano
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
To make the sauce: Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Saute onions until tender. Stir in garlic, and cook for 1 minute. Crush tomatoes into saucepan. Add tomato paste, basil, parsley and oregano. Simmer for 10 minutes.
Answers: 1. You may have burned your garlic. Burnt garlic is very bitter and once it's gone, it's gone. You have to start over.
2. You might have added too much oregano or basil.
3. You might have scorched your sauce. Tomato sauce is very easy to burn, especially around the edges of the pot and on the bottom, if you have the heat too high or are not stirring it often enough.
4. You might have a low-quality pan, and the acidic juices may have leached odd flavors from the pan into the sauce.
5. You might not have rinsed the pan properly when washing, and soap film got into your sauce.
How to fix:
Buy a decent, non-reactive pot (stainless steel! No aluminum!)
Start over medium low, wait for pan to heat till you add your oil. Once oil is in the pan, add onions, cook till tender.
Then add garlic. I find it works best if you tilt the pan so you get a puddle of oil in the side, and put the garlic into that. Keeps it from burning to a crisp straight off.
Add tomato juice, STIR, add tomato paste, add your herbs, STIR, and bring to JUST a simmer.
Stir often, and make sure you scrap down the sides of the pan. Those nasty dried bits do NOT taste good, and preventing them by scraping down the pan before it gets all crusty is the best course of action.
If you do scorch it, DO NOT SCRAPE THE PAN. Turn the sauce out into another pan WITHOUT scraping and finish your cooking.
Hope this helps! You have to have a little sugar in that receipe. When you cook tomatoes , you should add sugar to your recipe to fight the acidity Unless this is a low-salt recipe, add salt to taste. Add a little sugar, too. Maybe 1/2 teaspoon of sugar. I don't know how bitter it tastes to you but sometimes the quality of the tomatoes changes the taste. adding sugar does help.....
but is it possible that your tomatoes
had something wrong with them? Like
they were outdated? or spoiled?
suppose if you didn't get sick, then
possibly not.... Well, there could be a lot of reasons. When it comes to your tomoatoes, don’t use a food processor or hand mixer to create a uniform consistancy, as those will break the seeds and give your sauce a bitter flavor. You also need to be careful with the using oregano because when it is used in sauce, it can make it bitter if you use too much. Also check for citric acid in your tomato paste; it is a preservative that can leave a bitter aftertaste if too much is used.
I would also suggest care when you are cooking to mixture. Once all the ingredients are in the pot, mix well and increase the heat to medium-high. When you see bubbles, reduce the heat to simmer and cover. Too high a heat will burn the tomato, and give it a bitter flavor Could be too much oregano, but more probably and acid problem. What type of pot are you using? Not to be rude, but tomatoes in a cheap aluminum pot are a disaster. Sometimes the acid will react with the metal pan and make it taste funky. It could either be too much oregano or the "extra" tin of tomato paste. I usually only use one. I know too much oregano can make it bitter, I've done it myself once. But a teaspoon doesn't sound too much, although it is fresh. You can also add some brown sugar to smooth out the bitterness. Sugar is not needed in pizza sauce if you use Roma tomatoes. There is nothing in this recipe that would make the sauce bitter if the ingredients are fresh. Did you possibly use dried spices instead of fresh spices? If you did then there is about three times too much spice in your sauce. That would make it bitter.
Traditional Italian pizza sauce has crushed fennel seeds. You would need about 8 crushed seeds for a recipe this size. If you don't have a mortar and pestle to crush them, improvise w/ a tablespoon and the handle of a wooden spoon.