In this post I’ll share the best, easiest canning recipes with step by step instructions for water bath canning and steam canning.

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The best canning recipes are the ones that anyone can make, even a beginner.

The best canning recipes are delicious, giftable, made from readily available ingredients, and are EASY.

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These easy canning recipes are perfect if you’re wondering how to can food for beginners. Each recipe has step by step instruction for water bath canning and steam canning and each of these easy canning recipes are FAST.

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Easy Canning Recipes

Canned Peach Sauce

We’ve all heard of applesauce but what about the peach sauce? This recipe will share a great way of making peaches into a sauce that even babies can enjoy that’s thicker than just plain peach puree. Read on for the easy canning recipe with instructions for water bath canning AND steam canning! 

Raspberry Jam Recipe

Raspberry jam is one of the fastest preserves a person could make. Canning has a terrible reputation as being time-consuming- this recipe proves that canning can be quick, easy, and is a simple extension of the cooking process. Raspberry jam is a delight to give as gifts, easy to pick at U-pick farms, and delicious preserved in mason jars. 

Mixed Berry Jam

The beauty of this recipe is the naturally occurring acid that’s present in berries. This acid makes berries foolproof for beginners and makes it nearly impossible for you to make a mistake.

Applesauce Canning Recipe

This easy canning recipe will share an easy homemade applesauce recipe that you can preserve in jars with the traditional water bath instructions OR the steam canning directions. I’ll also share my favorite jars for lunch box size portions of this healthy snack! There’s options for zero added sweetener, too!

Spiced Pear Butter

Spiced pear butter is easy, grown up in taste, and flavored with maple syrup, whiskey if you please, and spices. It’s delicious in your lunch box, in between the layers of a cake (instead of frosting!), and more. Read on for this simple spiced pear butter recipe!

Strawberry Jam Canning Recipe

This easy canning recipe will share a great recipe for strawberry jam that can be halved or doubled and can be pureed smooth or not. It is versatile and easy, fragrant, and fast. Enjoy and be sure to download the printable version of the recipe to have on hand!

Tomato Jam Easy Canning Recipe

This tomato jam easy canning recipe is savory, herbal, and rich. It is amazing when paired with meat, goat cheese, pasta, and salty snacks. Read on for the step by step tutorial to make your own tomato jam!

Lime Cherries Canning Recipe

This easy canning recipe calls for stevia instead of sugar, which makes it keto-friendly, paleo-friendly, and most importantly, family-friendly. It’s a great lunch box option when canned in half-pint jars and is fast and delicious.

Carrot Pickles

Carrot pickles are one of my favorite pickles because they aren’t cucumbers.  I actually don’t care for cucumbers much, to be honest, which I know is really silly but they just don’t light my fire. Carrot pickles are always crisp and always delicious.

Helpful Posts For A Beginner

You’ll want to read these posts for pro tips on canning faster, easy canning basics, and canning the best way possible!

How To Use a Steam Canner

Steam canners are faster than traditional canners and are much easier. They can be used for any water bath canning recipe and save 25 minutes per batch. Learn how to use a steam canner in this post!

The Best Canning Jars

This post will share the best, most versatile canning jars for a new or experienced canner, that will double as food and drink containers in your home, and will help simplify your pantry and your canning process. Read on for the best canning jars!

Do You Need to Use Pickling Salt?

Many canning recipes call for pickling salt, and curious canners want to know: Do you need to use pickling salt? I’ll explain what pickling salt is when you should use it when it is okay to skip, and you’ll want to dive into canning immediately because salt is salt, Wildflowers.

What Happens if You Forget The Lemon Juice?

What Happens if You Forget the Lemon Juice? In many canning recipes, it is required that you add an acidifying ingredient like bottled lemon juice, citric acid, or vinegar. What happens if you forget? This post will explain. Spoiler alert: it ain’t pretty.

Do You Have To Simmer Your Canning Lids?

Do you have to simmer your canning lids? This post will explain whether or not you have to simmer your canning lids before putting them on your canning jars. Read on to get the scoop! Spoiler alert: The way your aunt is doing it is probably wrong!

How to Adjust for Altitude When Canning

Adjusting the processing time of your canning recipe based on your elevation or altitude sounds scary and is enough to make a beginning canner back up her canning jars and stick to freezer jam. Adjusting for altitude is actually very simple, and this post will explain exactly how to make the time adjustments so you know you are canning safely!

Canning Jump Start Guide

Did you know I’m a teacher? I love creating visual guides that help learners understand big ideas. If you’re a new canner, this guide is for you! I can help you dive into canning with a modern spin with the Canning Jump Start Guide- read on for the guide that will help you get started canning with visual guides, checklists, charts, and more so you can SEE how to get started canning!

Canning Personality Quiz

This quiz will determine your preserving personality and once you read your results, you will be given some helpful suggestions for how to improve your canning game. We are all here to grow, right? Read on for the quiz, Wildflowers!

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This tomato sauce canning recipe cuts out the most time-consuming step -peeling- and replaces it with the use of an appliance nearly every busy mom has- the blender. If you want to can healthy tomato sauce for your family, but don’t want it to take forever, this recipe is for you.

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First, I recommend you use a steam canner for your easy homemade tomato sauce canning instead of the traditional water bath because they save about 25 minutes for every subsequent batch. Steam canners are amazing, USDA approved pot that makes canning FAST. You can read more about them here. If you don’t have a steam canner yet, don’t worry. I have step by step directions for BOTH water bath and steam canning below.

For this easy tomato sauce canning recipe, you’ll need a blender. Instead of coring and peeling the tomatoes (which takes a long time, makes a big mess, and is honestly a real drag) you will quarter or half the tomatoes (depending on the efficacy of your blender) and blend them smooth.

Do you need to peel the tomatoes before canning?

No. In this great post by Epicurious, two important details are explained. 1. Peels can impart a bitter flavor and 2. the skin is where a ton of healthful compounds are found. Indeed, 98 percent of flavonols are found in the skin. The USDA further confirmed that thicker skins may impart a bitterness, but it is safe to include them in canning recipes.

I decided that the health benefit and time savings were worth the possible risk of bitterness, and mitigated this risk by choosing cherry tomatoes and tomatoes with thinner skins.

I found that the following recipe had NO BITTERNESS and was so much faster than peeling tomatoes. You’ll never go back to peeling, I’m sure.

Easy Tomato Sauce Canning Recipe

You will need 

12 pounds cherry or other thin-skinned tomatoes, halved or quartered

1/2 a medium onion, diced

2 teaspoons chopped garlic, jarred type is fine

2 tablespoons olive oil, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper

citric acid – 1/2 teaspoon added to each pint jar upon lid application

1. Prepare your water bath canning pot or your steam canner. Fill the water bath canning pot with water, add 7 pint jars, and bring to a boil OR fill the steam canner to fill line and turn on low with the 7 pint jars nearby on a towel-covered counter top. 

2. Blend the tomatoes.  Start on the “food chop” setting, and then move to a “medium blend setting”, for up to two minutes or until the visible skin pieces in the blender are smaller than half an inch.

3. Combine olive oil, garlic, and onion in the bottom of a preserving pan at medium-low heat and cook till onion is soft. Add salt and pepper.

4.Pour the blended tomato on top ofthe cooked garlic & onion mixture and stir to combine. Repeat the blending process until all tomatoes are blended and added.

5. Cook on medium heat until sauce is reduced, darker red in color, about 1 hour.

6. Ladle into jars one at a time, add 1/2 teaspoon citric acid to each jar, maintain 1/2 inch headspace, apply lids and rings, and either submerge into the boiling water of the boiling water bath with a jar lifter  OR set gently on the rack of the steam canner. 

7. Process for 25 minutes PLUS 5 minutes for every 1000 ft above sea level. Remove from heat, rest jars carefully on towel covered countertop. Label cooled jars and store for up to 1 year. Yields 8-10 pints.

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