{"id":558,"date":"2013-11-13T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:03:11","slug":"fix-watery-tomato-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Watery Tomato Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sometimes no matter how long I cook the sauce down, I discover it is watery when I open a jar.<\/h2>\n<p>Watery sauce not only looks unappealing, but it fails to adhere to pasta and makes pizza crust soggy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[sc:AdsenseHORIZ ]<\/p>\n<p>In the past I would heat it up on the stove and add a little tomato paste to thicken it up. Now that I know about BPA in canned foods, I don\u2019t do this anymore. Instead I drain the extra liquid in the sauce through a coffee filter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1954\" src=\"https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-filter.jpg\" alt=\"fix-watery-tomato-sauce-filter-photo\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-filter.jpg 660w, https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-filter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-filter-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It takes only a few seconds to fix watery tomato sauce and the drained liquid can be added to the pasta water for some extra flavor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1953\" src=\"https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-strain.jpg\" alt=\"fix-watery-tomato-sauce-strain\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-strain.jpg 660w, https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-strain-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/growagoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fix-watery-tomato-sauce-strain-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[sc:medianetHORIZ ]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[sc:gglnews ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes no matter how long I cook the sauce down, I discover it is watery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Fix Watery Tomato Sauce<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How to fix watery tomato sauce. 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