Roasted Tomato Sauce
Servings: 6 servings
An easy way to make homemade tomato sauce on a sheet pan. A great freezer tomato sauce as it freezes well. Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe is easy, flavorful and the base for a number of soups, stews, casseroles or as pasta sauce.
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Equipment
- sheet pan
Ingredients
- 4 pounds plum tomatoes, halved I typically use a mix from my garden of plum, tomatoes, grape tomatoes and tiny cherry or teardrop tomatoes. Any combination of ripe tomatoes will work for this sauce. Honestly, no need to weigh the tomatoes. Just completely fill up a baking sheet. That typically yields 1 quart plus 1 pint for me.
- ½ sweet onion more or less according to desired flavor
- 1 jalapeno pepper or any hot pepper you enjoy, remember to test pepper for heat first to decide how much of it to use based off of your heat preference.
- Optional added poblano, banana, red or green pepper.
- 2 large cloves garlic halved or cut in thirds. more or less to desired flavor
- drizzle of avocado or olive oil
- Kosher salt and black pepper
Notes
This is a loose recipe for tomato sauce. All you really need to do to be successful is cut your tomatoes in half (so you can properly season them). If using grape tomatoes or other small tomatoes, no need to cut in half.
No need to weigh your tomatoes. Just fill a baking sheet up like you see in my photos. If you can only fill ¾ of the sheet, fine. Simply adjust the other ingredients based off of what you have or your preference.
You can over fill the pan as well. The only concern is juice coming over your tray, be sure you baking sheet pan has sides.