I've made it with frozen tomatoes, so I don't see why you can't "recan" canned ones. LOL
But I'm not a canning expert. That would be Carol and Annie...and a few others...

You can do it, but the texture is going to be softer.
Still, better than anything you can buy!! Unless you can find decent tomatoes somewhere........
There aren't any safety issues with the re-canning.

Deanna

Thank you Terri and Deanna..I think I will give it try this weekend since it is suppose to below zero here in CT.

Heidi

Although nothing can beat fresh tomatoes a good quality canned tomato will work but you must drain most, but not all, of the liquid from the canned tomatoes and then proceed as the recipe describes. Not as fabulous as with fresh tomatoes but way better than anything in the store.

Ask me how I know....;)

As noted by several other members, you can make the stuff with canned tomatoes. It won't be quite as good but it's still a lot better than the jarred stuff you can get from Frito Lay or where ever.

As Chase mentioned, drain those tomatoes well or your salsa will be runny and watery, which is exactly what I was trying to NOT get when I first started with that recipe.

Annie

Thank you Chase and Annie for responding. I am going to give it try. Stores are having their "Can-Can" sales so I will pick up some and let you know how it turns out. He absolutely loves the stuff.

Heidi

I was just about to post about panicking over the imminent lack of salsa at our house, too. I made 3 triple batches with our tomatoes and everyone's loved it so much, the last of it is disappearing fast. How smart of you to think of making more with canned tomatoes. I thought we were stuck without until next fall!

I'm down to 6 jars. My family loves this stuff! We use it in everything. I am so glad to know we can use canned tomatoes.

Donna

One thing that I did last year was to drain canned tomatoes really well (as Annie suggested) and simmer down the drained off juice (maybe by 1/2?-don't remember as I've slept since then :-) to sub for some of the tomato sauce. I didn't add the drained tomatoes to the "boil for 10 minutes" step until about 6 minutes into it, so the tomatoes only cooked for about 4 minutes. They still retained, surprisingly, some chunky texture.

Ok it took a little longer than I thought to get around to trying this method. I went out and bought all the stuff that weekend but it took me until this past sunday to can! Where does the time go! IT WORKED! Accroding to my salsa loving son-"Not too bad - not like your last batch but better than the jar you bought the other day!" So that bought salsa is 1/4 empty in my fridge and my Annie's supply has already been tapped into.

I am still looking for 6-1 tomatoes. Still searching CT for them.

Thank ladies and especially Annie for her recipe!
Heidi

Heidi, I'm sure glad that worked out so well for you. Of course, nothing is as good as the really fresh stuff, but homemade is nearly always better than commercially prepared.

Annie