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Roasted Tomato Sauce

Gardening Guide: The Everything Tomato Guide: All You Need to Know About Growing, Harvesting, Cooking, and Eating Delicious Tomatoes

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Roasted Tomato Sauce

Why buy tomato sauce in a jar when you can make your own roasted tomato sauce with your garden-fresh tomatoes! When this is cooking, your house will fill with the aroma of an Italian kitchen.

By Bill Dugan, Executive Editor

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Roasted Tomato Sauce

For me, it is very important that I am canning and jarring tomato sauce all summer long. I think my grandmother Philomena, who was a full-blooded 4’8″ Italian granny who loved to garden, would be proud. And she absolutely loved this Roasted Tomato Sauce!

Having sauce like this on hand, I can always whip up a quick pasta dish or pizza when I’m hungry but don’t have much time to cook. What I love about Roasted Tomato Sauce is that not only does it add great flavor to quick weeknight pizzas, but it can be used as a base for stews and soups too!

An Italian classic, you can use this Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe to season pasta dishes and dress up meat and fish. This recipe is so easy — there is no need for long cooking times or pre-soaking of the tomatoes. The secret to this delicious roasted tomato sauce is in the roasting process itself. That means even if you’re not canning, you can just pop some fresh tomatoes off the vine and make it in an instant!

Tomatoes are filled with natural sugars, so when they are roasted, they caramelize and develop an intense flavor as they thicken into a sauce that will coat whatever you serve it with.

Roasted Tomato Sauce is a beautiful, rich, and intensely flavored sauce that’s perfect for all kinds of Italian cuisine. This sauce is versatile but can be used for many Italian dishes. It will keep frozen for about three months and canned for at least a year.

Cooking your food instead of buying processed stuff from the store is much healthier and cheaper than ready-made foods — not to mention tastier! This roasted tomato sauce recipe is no different; easy peasy to make, it will definitely outperform any ready-made sauce in the supermarket aisles — and it’s much healthier because you know what’s going inside your sauce!

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Why buy tomato sauce in a jar when you can make your own roasted tomato sauce with your garden-fresh tomatoes! When this is cooking, your house will fill with the aroma of an Italian kitchen.

  • Author: Bill Dugan
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cooling Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
  • Yield: Serves 8
  • Category: Sides & Sauces

Ingredients

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  • 2 pounds Roma (or Plum) tomatoes, quartered
  • 1 whole yellow onion, chopped
  • 1 whole garlic clove, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1 cup fresh chopped basil
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1/2 teaspoon dry oregano
  • 1 bay leaf

Instructions

  1. Remove ends of tomatoes before quartering.
  2. Combine tomatoes, onion, and garlic in a large glass baking dish.
  3. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and stir to combine.
  4. Pour olive oil over tomatoes and stir to mix.
  5. Add basil, red pepper flakes, and oregano. Stir to combine.
  6. Add bay leaf in the center of the mixture.
  7. Place baking dish in 450-degree pre-heated oven for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
  8. When done, let dish cool for 1 hour.
  9. When cooled, remove bay leaf and discard.
  10. For a chunkier sauce, mash mixture with a potato masher to desired consistency.
  11. For smoother sauce, transfer mixture to a food processor and puree.
  12. Transfer sauce to a sealable container and refrigerate or freeze until ready to use.

Tomatoes are the most popular plant for home gardeners! With The Everything Tomato Gardening Guide, you’ll have everything you need to know about growing and enjoying this versatile food, from the history and background of the mighty tomato to specific advice on growing, harvesting, and enjoying your hard work! Check it out now.

Have you tried this recipe? It’s so easy and should be a staple in your house—please tell us how it turned out for you.

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  • Sandra C. November 12, 2024

    I’ll never eat bottled sauce again! A neighbor gave me a big bag of Roma tomatoes and I didn’t want them to go bad before I could eat them all, so I came across this recipe. Other recipes I saw required that the skins of the tomatoes be removed before cooking, and, frankly I don’t have the time for that. Also I didn’t want to simmer anything on my stovetop. So this oven recipe was perfect. I was able to quickly pick out the skins after it was cooked before I ran it through the food processor, so saved myself a lot of time. (You can leave the skins on if you want to.) And, most importantly, it was delicious!! I have never made tomato sauce before, and I am 80 years old, but I will sure be making it again going forward. I didn’t realize what a major difference homemade is compared to jarred. An added bonus is that your house smells wonderful while the sauce cooks. I will never used jarred again.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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  • Introduction
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  • Growing Zones for Tomatoes
  • Types of Tomato Plants: Standard, Hybrid and Heirloom
  • Preventing Cross Pollination of Heirloom Tomatoes
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  • Growing Tomatoes from Seeds, Cuttings, or Seedlings
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  • Soil Requirements for Growing Tomatoes
  • The Right Sunlight for Your Tomatoes
  • Should You Fertilize Tomato Plants?
  • How and When to Water Tomato Plants
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  • Storing and Preserving your Tomatoes
  • How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent Tomato Diseases
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  • The Right Way to Weed Your Tomato Garden
  • Tomato Rot: How to Identify, Treat, and Prevent Blossom-End Rot
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  • Plant Profiles

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  • Salsa Seafood Soup
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  • When to Start Your Tomato Seeds
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