I've been watching the bottle of taco sauce in the door of the refrigerator go down lower and lower... I planned to make Mexican style foods tonight for dinner and although we have a lot of homemade canned salsa on our pantry shelves, the entree' I'm making is really best and tastes fabulous with my homemade Taco Bell style taco sauce and I can/could eat this stuff with a spoon so it was time to make more.
No worries. It takes less than 10 minutes and I can make 4 bottles worth in one recipe!
I've been making this for 20 years. I used to put it into small mason jars or re-purposed dressing jars, iced coffee bottles, etc. but a number of years ago they started to sell Taco Bell sauce in the grocery store and once in a while I'd buy it. I then save the bottles and reuse them.
I'm doing this from memory but it's so easy and follows a 4-3-2-1 pattern, I'm sure you'll memorize it in a minute as well!
Taco Sauce
3 c water
3 t corn starch
Place in a sauce pan on the stove, turn on the heat to medium high and whisk. When it's all mixed in, add;
1 - 6 oz. can tomato paste
4 t chili powder
3 T white vinegar
2 t salt
1 t cayenne pepper powder
Whisk over medium high heat just until it starts to bubble and thicken, turn down to simmer and simmer for a few minutes before removing from heat and letting cool down before you pour it into whatever containers you wish.
There is a video on my story on Instagram today that includes me whisking and stirring the taco sauce on the stove.
Here are some random photos I took quickly with my cellphone of me whipping up a batch quickly while the baby was playing and giving me a few minutes to do so!
Sauce is done - filling the bottles
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