Homemade Copycat Pace Picante Sauce Recipe: Perfect For Canning (2024)

Homemade Copycat Pace Picante Sauce is a favorite at our house. We LOVE pace salsa. But I wanted it to be a little healthier and I wanted to use our garden veggies before they went bad.

This Pace Picante recipe is a great one to use for canning. You can make big batches of it and can it all in 1 day and have the salsa for the rest of the year. It is easy to make and easy to can! You can even make it in smaller batches if you are making it with garden veggies and don’t have enough.

I was so happy with how things turned out. I used a copycat recipe for Pace Picante Salsa found HERE. I changed the tomato sauce to 1/2 tomato sauce and 1/2 crushed tomatoes.

Copycat Pace Picante Sauce Recipe

• 1 (28 ounce) cantomato sauce

• 28 ounceswater

• 1 mediumyellow onion, minced

• 2 fresh jalapeno peppers, with seeds,minced

• ¹⁄₄ cupwhite vinegar

• 1 teaspoonsalt

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• 1 tablespoon dried onion flakes

• ¹⁄₂ teaspoongarlic powder

  Instructions

• Add all ingredients into a saucepan in order of ingredients list.
• Bring ingredients to a boil in a saucepan over med-high heat.
• Once boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until thick.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Ladle salsa into jars or airtight for canning or storage
• If storing, store in an airtight jar in the refrigerator until serving.
• If canning, follow the instructions below.

Step By Step of How is Pace Picante sauce made?

First I took all my tomatoes and peppers and an onion. thetomatoeswere cut in 1/4ths and the peppers andonionwere diced. It isimportantto include the seeds in the peppers with the salsa. This is where most of the taste comes from.

Then I blended up thetomatoesand combined that with cans of tomato sauce in the pot.

As I boiled the salsa, it slowly boiled down. You can add a little time here if you think you would like your copycat pace salsa a little thicker.

Then let it boil on the stove until it thickens up. (I made a couple different batches of this and noticed that you have to boil it a bit more the the recipe says when using the crushed tomatoes)

I then put the Pace Picante sauce recipe in jars and boil water on the stove in the canner to seal the jars.

This can take a while to do, so I started to boil the water just before the salsa was done.

After the water is boiling, drop the jars into the water and be sure the water covers at least an inch over the jars. Put the lid on and process for 20 mins for pint jars and 25 for quart jars.

When they were done, I got the jars of salsa out of the canner and set them to cool overnight. You want to be sure all the jar lids are popped down before storing them.

Making large numbers of things so you can process them is usually an all-day job. You can plan ahead and make enough for the year, so you do it once a year, and then you are done! it is very rewarding and fun!

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